The Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito, which now comprise a minority in both houses of the Diet, ...

Four workers who were doing drainage and other work on a sewer system apparently fell into a manhole in Gyoda, Saitama ...

Online medical examinations for livestock are becoming more common, particularly in Hokkaido, and a part of the reason is due ...

A suspect in the Thursday attack of a Japanese woman and her child in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, ...

A female pantropical spotted dolphin kept in captivity was found dead at the Taiji Whale Museum in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture ...

The record-breaking heat and droughts this summer have raised concerns about the impact on crops, and high temperatures and ...

Shikoku Railway Co. (JR Shikoku) has started to offer a boxed meal, or ekiben, in a case modeled after one of the famous ...

Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, recorded 40.1 C on Saturday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, marking four ...

The government and related academic organizations have launched smartphone apps that provide alerts when intense heat ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy on Friday visited a food distribution site in the Gaza Strip operated by an ...

The tariff measures of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump have revealed that being a privileged U.S. security ...

Hirakawa Zoo in Kagoshima has successfully bred Amami togenezumi, or Amami spiny rats, an endangered species. The rare rats ...