A small plant-eating deer species that rarely draws much attention in Japan is now a major source of concern after an ...

A city on the Pacific coast in eastern Japan and other entities hope to save a plan for offshore wind power generation, after ...

KATSUURA, Chiba -- A total of about 20,000 "hina" dolls will decorate various locations in this eastern Japan city during the ...

Atsuko Sato received many letters from Kabosu fans across Japan on the dog's birthday last November, six months after her ...

The 7-Eleven store in Chiba prefecture, a suburb of Tokyo, isn’t like the the 21,000 other ones across Japan. It’s almost ...

A Guatemalan man has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling some 190 kilograms of stimulants into Japan, a record amount in ...

Japan Display Inc. (JDI) is to turn a display manufacturing site outside Tokyo into a data center. The Japanese display maker ...

TOKYO -- Japan Display is looking to sell a major LCD panel plant in Japan, the company said Wednesday, as shrinking demand ...

A research team, including Professor Naoto Tomioka of Okayama University of Science, has uncovered new genetic evidence challenging the long-standing "dual-structure model" of Japanese ancestry. By ...

The Yokohama District Court has sentenced a 53-year-old man to 18 years in prison for killing a 55-year-old man at his (the ...

Police in Saitama City have arrested a 44-year-old man on suspicion of dangerous driving resulting in death after he hit and killed an 87-year-old woman on Friday. According to police, the incident ...