Nagoya said Wednesday that it has decided to provide emergency relief across the city where at least 41 people sustained minor injuries after a linear rainband formed, pounding the Tokai region with ...

A 66-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly attempting to kill a man in his 40s by stabbing him with a knife at an apartment in Nishitokyo, Tokyo. Police said Katsuharu Kondo had reportedly ...

Japan's Justice Ministry plans to launch a trial to track sex offenders on parole via GPS as early as fiscal 2027, a ministry official said Tuesday. The ministry hopes data from a GPS device, which ...

A 6-year-old boy attending a special needs school in Sakata City, Yamagata Prefecture, has gone missing, police said Monday. The missing child, Yuto Takahashi, was last seen by a local resident at a ...

A woman made an unsuccessful attempt to evade police on Wednesday, bumping into three police cars and driving for about 10 kilometers on the wrong side of a highway in Chiba Prefecture, police said.

Tokyo tourist hotspot Shinjuku will impose a ban on more than half of its holiday rentals including homes on Airbnb, an official said Monday, after a surge in complaints about visitors. Known for its ...

Social media giants face U.S.$78 million fines if they fail to protect young users from harmful content, Australia's prime minister said Tuesday as he unveiled draft laws reining in big tech. Prime ...

Heavy rainfall hit eastern Japan and elsewhere on Monday, with the weather agency urging maximum vigilance against landslides on Niijima, Oshima and Toshima islands, south of Tokyo, and a woman dying ...

Japan's government will buy back 210,000 tons of rice it released as an emergency measure last year, as supply shortages have now eased, the farm minister said Tuesday, in what would be the first such ...

President Donald Trump threatened Monday to block U.S. sales of Canadian plane maker Bombardier unless it builds aircrafts in the country, complaining of "unjust and unfair" bilateral trade provisions ...

Is climate change set for a comeback as a top EU priority, after a deadly summer of record-breaking heatwaves across Europe? The fight against global warming is expected to feature prominently in a ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Saturday urged Russia to remove a war victory statue unveiled in Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East the previous day, depicting a Soviet soldier destroying a ...