After Japan’s first execution of a prisoner in almost three years, the European Union and other countries responded with a ...

Suffering from steadily shrinking hauls, fishing communities around Japan are targeting something that is much more in ...

A drone-based tsunami detection is taking shape along this famed surfing coastline to ensure a speedy evacuation of ...

A relentless series of earthquakes has shaken Akusekijima island here in the remote Tokara island chain, causing sleepless ...

BANGKOK--Thailand’s Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office pending an investigation ...

Seeking relief from the brutal heat, I wandered into a botanical garden and found a cluster of “hangesho” (Chinese lizard's ...

The central government has designated 723 municipalities in 30 prefectures for ramping up disaster mitigation measures based ...

Masanori Kin ran for a seat in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly on a policy of eliminating discrimination and promoting ...

The house that property consultant and ghost investigator Kazutoshi Kodama regularly surveys has a grim history: seven years ...

Shohei Ohtani reached 30 homers for the fifth straight season, hitting a fourth-inning drive after fouling a pitch off the ...

Authorities are considering installing security cameras in schools following a string of arrests of teachers suspected of ...

Japan’s average land price rose for the fourth consecutive year, with hubs for foreign tourists logging some of the sharpest ...