A delegation from a hibakusha group in Nagasaki Prefecture met with an American woman who witnessed the attack on Pearl Harbor as a child, in Honolulu on Dec. 6.

A man in his 50s in Sapporo was defrauded of a total of ¥122 million by men claiming to be police officers and others, ...

In response to the series of bear attacks on humans, the Environment Ministry plans to launch a nationwide survey next fiscal ...

The supplementary budget proposal for fiscal 2025, totaling ¥18.3 trillion, was approved at the House of Representatives plenary session. The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and the ...

Chinese and Russian bombers took an unusual route of flying toward Tokyo during their joint flight from the East China Sea to ...

The main reason this character was chosen as the top is that bear sightings and human injuries are at an all-time high. There ...

The Liberal Democratic Party has compiled a draft outline of key points in a review of implementation guidelines for the ...

The Philippine coast guard said on Saturday that three Filipino fishermen had been wounded and two fishing vessels suffered “significant damage” when Chinese coast guard ships fired water cannon in a ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a welcoming ceremony for an army engineering unit that had returned home after ...

Sweet potatoes that were first cultivated over 100 years ago by a French missionary have been harvested in terraced fields in ...

The Bank of Japan is likely to raise its short-term policy rate target to 0.75% from 0.5% at its Policy Board meeting on ...

China held a low-key memorial ceremony on Saturday for the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, with President Xi Jinping not attending, ...