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

A Japanese national was attacked and injured in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, eastern China, on Thursday, officials at the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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

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

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

Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, recorded 40.1 C on Saturday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, marking four ...

The government and related academic organizations have launched smartphone apps that provide alerts when intense heat ...