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 ...

The price of mikan from Hamamatsu’s Mikkabi district, a famous production area in Shizuoka Prefecture, was set at 780 yen ($5 ...

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.

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

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

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

One day in the summer at a nursery school here, 4- and 5-year-old children were looking into mirrors and drawing their own ...

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

SAPPORO—A senior officer of the Ground Self-Defense Force has sued the central government, saying he suffered hearing loss ...