The northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido has seen a series of earthquakes registering 4 on Japan's 7-point seismic intensity ...

Major convenience store chains FamilyMart, Lawson and 7-Eleven are set to begin selling reserve rice released by the Japanese ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is considering a plan to allow a state minister, who would lead a to-be-established disaster ...

A mechanism by which pancreatic cancer, known as a difficult-to-treat form of cancer, becomes malignant has been uncovered by ...

Japan's Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., which sold supplements suspected to have been linked to dozens of deaths, will ...

Japan's Princess Kako, a niece of Emperor Naruhito, departed for Brazil on Wednesday to promote ties between the two ...

Japan's real wages in April fell 1.8 percent from a year earlier, marking the fourth consecutive monthly decline, as pay ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him "very strongly" in a phone ...

Yudai Fujioka homered and drove in three runs to back a scoreless outing by Shuta Ishikawa as the Lotte Marines beat the ...

Stars of Japanese volleyball's SV.League say the league must address its crowded match schedule and other issues affecting ...

The number of births in Japan fell below 700,000 for the first time in 2024, declining 5.7 percent from the previous year to ...

Details of financial damage claimed by an educational corporation in Tokyo that sued 10 people including a former student for ...