Education officials in two cities in Japan failed to respond appropriately to incidents of sexual violence among students, ...

FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- The Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament went from two unbeaten leaders to four with one loss on the seventh day, ...

Five foreign-capitalized companies are conducting surveys or exploratory drilling to develop gold mines in at least 42 ...

A freight train derailed in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Saturday, disrupting some passenger and commercial ...

A sample of fuel debris was recently retrieved for the first time from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station's No. 2 ...

The government will designate Japan's first laboratory to handle deadly pathogens like the Ebola virus for research as soon ...

Disgruntled X users are again flocking to Bluesky, a newer social media platform that grew out of the former Twitter before ...

Iran successfully sought a meeting with Elon Musk, according to a U.S. official, one in a series of steps that appeared aimed ...

More than a dozen indoor shoes were stolen from a child care facility here in early November, and security cameras installed ...

A 13-month-old boy died at a hospital after choking on his lunch at a licensed day care center in this city's Kita Ward on ...

The 82-year-old son of a Japanese migrant to the Philippines, who had lived his entire life there as a stateless person, ...

Every autumn, dead mantises can be seen lying on the asphalt of roads. A type of parasitic worm may be leading the creatures ...