Residents and volunteers on Friday pounded steamed rice in a wooden mortar with a large hammer to make rice cakes at a ...

Yamanashi Prefecture plans to build 13 more evacuation shelters along a downhill route on the prefecture side of Mt. Fuji’s, ...

A 1-year-old boy has died after choking on a ball of cheese, the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan announced on ...

A day before a potential government shutdown, the House resoundingly rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s new plan ...

Crown Prince Akishino visited Shizuoka Municipal Nihondaira Zoo in Shizuoka on Thursday as the president of the Japanese ...

Officials from the Japanese Defense Ministry and the Tokyo metropolitan government on Friday conducted an on-site inspection ...

What on earth was the purpose of a male suspect attacking two junior high school students? The background and motive behind ...

The government and ruling bloc on Thursday began making adjustments to the schedule in order for the ordinary Diet session to ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has begun seriously coordinating his schedule for a visit the United States, following U.S.

A series of intense Israeli airstrikes shook Yemen’s rebel-held capital and a port city early Thursday and killed at least ...

The secretaries-general of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, its coalition partner, Komeito, and the opposition ...

ONAGAWA, Miyagi — A new bridge to Izushima, an island off Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, opened Thursday. The 364-meter Izushima ...