Figure skating icon Yuzuru Hanyu believes it is his mission to maintain the memory of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami dis ...

The Japanese Cabinet approved a bill on March 10 to amend the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, introducing an electronic trav ...

Some 790,000 items discovered in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan in March 2011 r ...

In a small workshop in the coastal town of Otsuchi, northeastern Japan, a group of women joke and laugh as they embroider in ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi referred to women only once in her recent policy speech, far fewer times compared to past leaders, raising qu ...

TOKYO -- A section chief at the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) headquarters was reprimanded for regularly adopting an angry attitude toward his subordinates, leaving them feeling intimidated, it ...

Italy has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros (about $35 million), one of the largest state investm ...

Unabated telecom "special" fraud and social media-based investment and romance scams had resulted in some 1.04 billion yen (about $6.61 million) in damages in Hokkaido over the first two months of ...

This war with no exit has pushed the world economy to the brink. Both the United States and Israel on the one side, and Iran on the other, must heed t ...

Full time public high schools in 33 of Japan's 47 prefectures have fewer applicants than they have places to fill for the 2026 school year, a ...

Japan supports a possible coordinated release of oil reserves by International Energy Agency member countries, industry minister Ryos ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- East Japan Railway Co. said Tuesday it has developed shock absorbers to lower the risk of derailment for bullet trains in the event of an earthquake, the first such device developed ...