An annual chrysanthemum festival is underway at Rakujuen Park in this central Japan city, with this year's theme focused on ...

Osaka Prefectural Police have made a series of arrests and referrals to prosecutors of 34 members of the Nagoya-based ...

Amended rules took effect on Thursday permitting police officers in Japan to use rifles to kill bears, in response to a ...

Top diplomats from the Group of Seven industrialized democracies publicly showed their consensus on Ukraine and S ...

The U.S. ended production of the penny Wednesday, abandoning the 1-cent coins that were embedded in American culture for more ...

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it will make an additional investment of up to $10 billion in the United States o ...

A Pokemon-themed area will open in an amusement park in the suburbs of Tokyo on Feb. 5, making it the first-ever outdoor ...

The phenomenon known as aurora borealis or northern lights was observed in parts of Hokkaido on Wednesday night as a ...

The yen briefly hit 155 against the U.S. dollar, a fresh nine-month low, on Wednesday in New York amid hopes that the ...

According to new research by a University of Tokyo team, what may be a surprising benefit of developing gray hair?

The principal at a junior high school in Saitama Prefecture made false statements in an initial report on a bullying case ...

Takashi Tachibana, leader of the NHK Party, a political group in Japan, has been arrested on suspicion of defamation. Acts ...