A junior high school student here has passed the Japanese national qualification exam for handling Class A hazardous ...

The highly pathogenic avian influenza, known for its high mortality rate, is suspected as the cause of mass deaths and ...

A scenic playground recently opened atop the 622-meter Mount Sarakura in this southwest Japan city's Yahatahigashi Ward, ...

Two people were injured Wednesday after being attacked by a man wielding a knife at a subway station near the University of ...

Joseph Nye, a prominent scholar of international relations who had a significant influence on the U.S.-Japan alliance, has ...

Japan's ruling coalition agreed on Wednesday to consider new economic measures to cushion the impact of higher tariffs ...

OSAKA -- A man with an admission ticket to the "international exposition" in 1940, which was scheduled to be held mainly in ...

Is there a need for Japan's national government to continue its pork-barreling that is fraught with problems? It wouldn't be ...

Police on May 5 arrested an 80-year-old local woman after she turned herself in at a police box here and said, ...

SUZU, Ishikawa -- Salt production using the "agehama" method, which had been practiced in the northern Noto Peninsula's ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit Okinawa next month to pay their respects to the war dead ahead of the ...

A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown.