A panel of experts at the Environment Ministry is discussing changes to Japan’s drinking water standards to protect the ...

Along with ties and belts, a bra is usually banned at police holding cells due to the potential risks of detainees using it ...

Iwojima island, the stark volcanic outpost home to one of World War II’s fiercest battles, remains the site of an unfinished ...

If not a member of the imperial family, Empress Masako admitted what her “dream job” would have been when she visited the prefecture-run Tobe Zoological Park here on May 17.

Emperor Naruhito expressed hopes for obtaining public understanding for the proposal being deliberated in the Diet to ensure a stable imperial succession. Diet executives submitted the proposal to ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi isn’t shying away from the hot button issue of Taiwan that her predecessors tread lightly on, citing a condition for Japan to provide support in exercising its right of ...

Hackers breached Booking.com, one of the world’s largest online accommodation reservation sites, by posing as hotel staff to steal credit card information from travelers making bookings. Phishing ...

Kodansha to release Young Magazine manga edition in U.S.

The probability of a magnitude-8 or -9 megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years has risen to “around 80 percent,” according to the government’s Earthquake Research Committee.

Japan will invest to increase crude oil production in Alaska as part of the $550 billion (87 trillion yen) tariff agreement with the United States and also stockpile the reserves produced in the U.S.

A rare convergence of two typhoons could wreak havoc with the weather across Japan over the weekend as the Japan Meteorological Agency warned of the possibility of more typhoons this summer. The JMA ...

VOX POPULI: The weight of a word and what it takes to be a true prime minister ...