A new documentary film that depicts the long campaigns waged by two Okinawa governors against the concentration of U.S.

Demand for lodgings in central Osaka is rising ahead of the Osaka Kansai Expo 2025, which opens on April 13. New hotels have ...

The last remaining evacuation shelters set up in Ishikawa Prefecture last year are scheduled to close on April 13, signaling ...

NAHA--A joint patrol involving Okinawa prefectural police and the U.S. military is to be mounted in the entertainment ...

More than 20,000 people who died at home alone in Japan last year were not found until more than eight days after their ...

NARA—Of the six teenagers rushed to the hospital after being struck by lightning in a schoolyard during an evening soccer ...

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The education ministry on April 10 tasked an expert advisory panel to look into establishing a new teaching system that can ...

The humble rice ball, eaten in Japan for thousands of years, is seemingly more popular now than ever, with specialty ...

After a three-and-a-half-hour interrogation, police officers wore down a 12-year-old girl and got her to “confess” to ...

A satellite operated by multibillionaire Elon Mask’s SpaceX now allows smartphone subscribers in Japan to use short message ...

Ibaraki Governor Kazuhiko Oigawa brought a powerful recruiting pitch with him last year when he flew to India.