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 ...

Iceland's voters rejected restarting negotiations to join the European Union in a referendum that pitted concerns about geo ...

All heavy rain-related evacuation and safety advisories issued for parts of Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, were lifted by ...

Japan's industrial output in July was nearly flat, with a mere 0.1 percent increase from the previous month, as gains in ...

Countries are gearing up to establish a unified lunar time standard, with a key international conference in Paris set to take ...

Smoke came from a visitor's belongings at Tokyo Disneyland on Sunday, but no one was hurt, local authorities said, with the ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Yokozuna Onosato said he "managed to get through" the 28-day summer sumo tour as it wrapped up Sunday in ...

A cat stationmaster at a local Japanese train station is drawing fans and boosting merchandise sales as the struggling ...

Around 10 people were briefly trapped inside a ride at Legoland Japan theme park in Nagoya on Sunday after the doors of the ...

A Japanese Self-Defense Forces destroyer returned Sunday to its home port in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture in southwestern ...