YAMADA, Iwate Prefecture—A European oyster species that “disappeared” from waters around the Tohoku region after the 2011 ...

KITA-KYUSHU—Police on Dec. 19 arrested an unemployed man in connection with a stabbing attack at a McDonald’s restaurant here ...

Tsuneo Watanabe, the chief of Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings who wielded enormous influence in politics and Japanese professional ...

The Osaka High Court ruled on Dec. 18 that the Japanese government was not responsible for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power ...

Early risers across Kagoshima Prefecture and other parts of western Japan spotted a fiery object slowly splitting apart as it traveled across the predawn sky around 4 a.m. on Dec. 19.

KYOTO--One stone statue of an enlightened Buddhist person here cradles a cat in its arms while another holds a book inscribed ...

WASHINGTON--China is expanding its nuclear force, has increased military pressure against Taiwan and has strengthened its ...

Akie Abe, the widow of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, dined with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, ...

November, and wild boar dishes are now being served at restaurants in the Tanbasasayama city area of Hyogo Prefecture.

Belarus has detained a second Japanese national who was reportedly filming a road, the Japanese Embassy in Belarus announced ...

In a first, the suicide of a man who held two jobs was recognized as a work-related death based on the combined psychological ...

SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday visited a mausoleum for his late father and grandfather Kim Jong Il and Kim ...