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

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

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

Secondhand Japanese vehicles remain in high demand in Russia despite soaring prices caused by the export restrictions Tokyo ...

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest ...

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.

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

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

China’s exports in December grew at a faster pace than expected, as factories rushed to fill orders to beat higher tariffs ...

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

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