Osamu Suzuki, the late former president and chairman of Suzuki Motor Corp., demonstrated outstanding business skills as a top-level corporate manager. Suzuki died Wednesday at the age of 94. During ...

The government is providing “push-type” assistance — sending aid to disaster-hit areas without waiting for specific requests ...

Tokyo saw its net population inflow rise again last year, reaching 79,285, a level close to that before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry has reported. Advocating ...

The fatal explosion that severely damaged a shopping mall soon after Tuesday’s powerful earthquake likely was the result of gas that leaked from broken pipes, filled a particular space at the mall and ...

The number of confirmed deaths from the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Kumamoto Prefecture and surrounding areas on Tuesday has risen to 30, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said during a meeting ...

The impact of the massive earthquake that hit Kumamoto Prefecture on Tuesday continues to be widely felt in Kyushu, with operations halted at many factories across the region.

The confirmed death toll following Tuesday’s earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture has risen to 34, the prefectural government said on Thursday. In response the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that registered ...

The Hinagu fault zone triggered the major earthquake that struck Kumamoto Prefecture on Tuesday, the same fault responsible for the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake, according to a panel of government experts ...

The powerful Typhoon Dolphin, also known as Typhoon 13, was moving west-northwest at 20 kph as of noon Thursday and is likely to reach seas near Minami-Torishima by Saturday and the Ogasawara Islands ...

The extent of the damage caused by the powerful earthquake that struck Kumamoto Prefecture hard on Tuesday has increasingly come to light in wider areas amid rescue and relief operations.

An uncontained wildfire four times the size of Paris threatened to surge again in southwest France on Wednesday — as three firefighters died in Greece and crews across southern Europe confronted a ...

South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported a record operating profit of 89.5 trillion won ($62 billion) for the April-June period, a day after crosstown rival SK Hynix also ...