Global warming increased rainfall by more than 20 percent during the devastating heavy rains that struck Yamagata and Akita ...

KANUMA, Tochigi Prefecture--Tochigi prefectural police may be the best equipped force in Japan to catch felons in high-speed car chases. Some of Japan’s fastest sports vehicles are among the patrol ...

Much of Japan saw summer-like weather on Saturday, with temperatures topping 30 degrees Celsius in some places.

Donald Keene is seen during a visit to Takubokusho Park at Omori Beach in Hakodate, Hokkaido, in this photo provided by the Donald Keene Memorial Foundation. "A Handful of Sand," a poetry collection ...

JAL launches the world's first airport trial of biodiesel made from rice bran oil byproducts, powering a baggage tractor using technology from Tohoku University ...

Captured on camera was a bear staring at a moving car in Minamifurano, Hokkaido.The next moment, the bear charged ...

Instead of trying to suppress chemical interactions between the solid electrolyte and the electrode, a research team engineered an alloy that utilizes these side effects to ...

Japanese bullet train. - Amazon. Amazon Japan has started using the country's iconic bullet trains to move packages between facilities across different regions. The company said t ...

A research team from Tohoku University, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has ...

By leveraging the world-class Shinkansen network, known for its punctuality and speed, Amazon is further advancing the ...

Japanese airlines and rail operators are expanding premium seats and private compartments on airplanes, bullet trains and ...