Record-setting torrential rain has hit the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture and western Toyama Prefecture on Aug. 27, ...

The Japanese Embassy in Nepal said it has been unable to contact five Japanese nationals after a massive flash flood killed ...

Tokyo police on July 6 arrested a 15-year-old boy who has admitted to using AI-powered ChatGPT to build a program that forcibly deleted 46,000 accounts on anime streaming service “Bandai Channel,” ...

KOBE—All blocs in the Hyogo prefectural assembly will call for Governor Motohiko Saito to resign mainly over his handling of ...

While both stood on the podium to receive their Olympic gold medals, this time, Ryuichi Kihara kneeled down to give his pairs ...

Isamu Saeki admits that he didn’t know what “Cells at Work!” was about until his second daughter, who was a kindergartener at ...

The Nikkei 225 index touched 70,000 for the first time, fueling debate whether a froth is forming on the Tokyo stock market and speculation over what could prompt the next market correction. A rally ...

Over the last few years, I have taken care of the necessary paperwork every time my parents had to be hospitalized or undergo ...

Massive flash floods in a border area of Nepal and China on Wednesday killed at least 160 people and left hundreds of ...

KYOTO—The principal of a high school here was dismissed over the death of a student on a school trip to Okinawa Prefecture.

The government on June 24 announced details of Japan’s Growth Strategy that is topped by a public- and private-sector investment of 102 trillion yen ($630.7 billion) for artificial intelligence and ...

A total of 8,341 people in Tokyo were taken by ambulance to hospitals for suspected heatstroke from June through August amid the record summer heat wave in the capital, according to the Tokyo Fire ...