Uncertainty has yet to be dispelled over details of an agreed-upon automobile tariff to be imposed on Japan by the United ...

The Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito, which now comprise a minority in both houses of the Diet, ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will not deliver a prime ministerial statement on Aug. 15, the 80th anniversary of the end of ...

A 75-year-old man died Friday while climbing Mt. Fuji on a tour, the season’s first fatality to occur on the Yamanashi ...

A female pantropical spotted dolphin kept in captivity was found dead at the Taiji Whale Museum in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture ...

A suspect in the Thursday attack of a Japanese woman and her child in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, ...

A sea lion named Hama can imitate human movements, according to a study led by an official at the Kinosaki Marine World ...

The record-breaking heat and droughts this summer have raised concerns about the impact on crops, and high temperatures and ...

Shikoku Railway Co. (JR Shikoku) has started to offer a boxed meal, or ekiben, in a case modeled after one of the famous ...

Online medical examinations for livestock are becoming more common, particularly in Hokkaido, and a part of the reason is due ...

Four workers who were doing drainage and other work on a sewer system apparently fell into a manhole in Gyoda, Saitama ...

Kimiya Yui and three other crew members are bound for the International Space Station after lifting off from NASA’s Kennedy ...