Heavy rain flooded roads and fields with muddy water in Fukui Prefecture in central Japan on Aug. 30, leaving farmers ...

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Three people were killed and three others were injured after a passenger car and a truck collided head-on in this central ...

Japan's oldest person, Shigeko Kagawa, a 115-year-old resident of Nara Prefecture, western Japan, died late last week, the ...

Calls have arisen from conservative legislators including members of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Monday urged Nepal to do everything possible to locate five Japanese nationals ...

Japan's industry ministry is seeking to conduct a preliminary survey in Hitachiomiya in Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, to ...

An event allowing participants to engage in simulated dialogue with hibakusha, or atomic bomb survivors, through an ...

A roughly 260-meter skyscraper, taller than the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, is set to appear at Shinjuku Station, ...

To stem the outflow of young people from regional areas amid a tight labor market, prefectures in Japan are engaged in a ...

Japan's Defense Ministry on Monday submitted a record budget request of 8.89 trillion yen ($56 billion) for fiscal 2027, as ...

The Japanese government has already lodged a protest over Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Etorofu Island in the ...