A sledding slope packed with artificial snow is open at the Hakone-en resort facility on the shores of Lake Ashinoko here to ...

Ground subsidence in Gifu Prefecture was likely caused by tunnel construction work for the magnetic-levitation (maglev) Chuo ...

OSAKA--One in three young people between the ages of 13 and 25 has borrowed money from financial institutions, relatives or ...

Serious rice wine drinkers overseas tend to fall over themselves trying to get their hands on “ginjo” high-quality sake ...

Ryomen Sukuna, a legendary figure with two heads and four arms, was given a more normal human appearance in a globally ...

The price of mikan from Hamamatsu’s Mikkabi district, a famous production area in Shizuoka Prefecture, was set at 780 yen ($5 ...

Secondhand Japanese vehicles remain in high demand in Russia despite soaring prices caused by the export restrictions Tokyo ...

A blaze that might have been triggered by explosives during a Maritime Self-Defense Force training exercise was still burning more than 24 hours after the first report to the fire department.

Japan issued a tsunami advisory on Monday after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the southwest of the country. The public ...

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest ...

A fired chancellor of Tokyo Women’s Medical University was arrested on Jan. 13 on suspicion of arranging improper payments ...

China’s exports in December grew at a faster pace than expected, as factories rushed to fill orders to beat higher tariffs ...