Ground subsidence in Gifu Prefecture was likely caused by tunnel construction work for the magnetic-levitation (maglev) Chuo ...

Okinawa Prefecture’s years-long battle to stop the central government building a U.S. base on its soil has come to naught ...

A record 52 mountain climbing accidents occurred across Japan during the year-end break, an increase of 22 over the same ...

Ryomen Sukuna, a legendary figure with two heads and four arms, was given a more normal human appearance in a globally ...

A fired chancellor of Tokyo Women’s Medical University was arrested on Jan. 13 on suspicion of arranging improper payments ...

A blaze that might have been triggered by explosives during a Maritime Self-Defense Force training exercise was still burning more than 24 hours after the first report to the fire department.

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from ...

Terunofuji, the lone yokozuna in sumo, retired from the ring on Jan. 17, saying his battered body was no longer up for the ...

Despite Japan’s popularity as a travel destination, the lack of halal food remains a major hurdle for many Muslim visitors.

Seeking higher returns, small-lot investors in Japan poured trillions of yen into mutual funds that invest in overseas stocks ...

A Tokyo-based startup, working with the Yamagata University Sleep Management Research Center, perfected what it calls the ...

Convenience store trainer Jiyu Chen understood the difficulties facing two foreign female part-time workers who listened as ...