Subaru Corp.'s flagship Forester SUV was named the car of the year in Japan in 2025 by automotive critics and other experts, ...

When a construction company wanted to ask the public to conserve water, it sought to make a splash with the message.

For a second day, China's military on Tuesday dispatched air, navy and missile units to conduct joint live-fire drills around ...

A 5-year-old boy died after falling on an outdoor escalator at a ski slope here and getting his right arm caught in the ...

Residents of at least one prefecture are not looking over their shoulders as a steady stream of bear sightings are reported ...

Under the Chinese zodiac, 2026 will be the year of “Hinoe-uma” (Fire Horse), which, according to a scientifically baseless ...

Tsuyoshi Maruoka, a Ph.D. student specializing in chemical ecology, found a pleasant surprise from a container of ...

All lanes on the Kan-etsu Expressway linking Tokyo and Niigata Prefecture were open for traffic on Dec. 28, two days after 67 ...

NingNing, a Chinese member of South Korean girl group aespa who has come under fire in Japan over a social media post ...

Feeling a stronger commitment to peace, Princess Kako, second daughter of Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko, ...

SENDAI—The central government’s first disaster advisory under a new warning system caused confusion among foreign residents ...

Some 750 years after the Kamakura Shogunate fended off foreign invasions of the Kyushu region, the ancient capital of ...