Spring has arrived in the mountains of the Kii Peninsula. The rare 'Kumano-zakura,' the first new cherry species identified ...

Japan's western prefecture of Wakayama has reviewed its estimates for the intensities of an anticipated mega quake and the ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has replaced a whopping 40 percent of his Cabinet. The move is widely seen as an attempt to ...

A US jury has found IT giants Meta and Google responsible for the suffering of a 20-year-old woman who says she became ...

Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto died in March 2023. With diaries and private footage shared by his family, this ...

Investigative sources say a man arrested for allegedly intruding into the Chinese embassy grounds in Tokyo said he wanted to ...

Japanese department store operator Sogo & Seibu will close its Seibu outlet in Tokyo's Shibuya district at the end of ...

The bullet train line that connects Japan's main island of Honshu and the northern prefecture of Hokkaido marked the 10th ...

Experts holding the Master of Wine title are visiting Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, to sample locally produced wines.

NHK has found that the number of foreign children registered in Japanese municipalities has risen in more than half of ...

Japan's economy and industry minister has asked the International Energy Agency to consider additional coordinated oil ...

The high representative for Gaza of the "Board of Peace," Nickolay Mladenov, reported to the United Nations Security Council ...