TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nuclear deterrence should not be the "final form of security," a Japanese forum said Monday in its ...

Japan's parliament passed the budget for fiscal 2025 on Monday, the day before the new financial year starts, after Prime ...

CHIBA (TR) – Chiba Prefectural Police have an arrested a child consultation center employee in Ichikawa City over the illicit touching of a middle school girl’s body, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Mar.

A scarcity of rice is causing discontent among farmers and consumers in Japan and drawing attention to a policy some say has ...

Participants include experts from nuclear powers such as the United States, China and Russia, as well as from non-nuclear ...

The Hokkaido prefectural government has set a spring special alert period, from April 1 to May 31 this year, in the hope of ...

Consumer inflation in the Tokyo metropolitan area picked up in March due to higher food prices, staying above the Bank of ...

Over 900 hectares have been destroyed in total in wildfires that began on Sunday in Ehime and Okayama prefectures in western ...

Ten students from Niigata Prefecture visited Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi on Wednesday, telling him what they learned about ...

The wildfires burned through a cumulative 900ha, but no casualties have been reported. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba told the leader of a junior party in the coalition government that he would "introduce ...

Oita Prefecture in southwestern Japan plans to temporarily rebrand its airport as "Oita Hello Kitty Airport" in a bid to ...