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

A 73-year-old woman was left unconscious after apparently being attacked by a bear at a facility for people with disabilities in Kita-Akita, Akita Prefecture, on Thursday, police said.

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

A sea lion named Hama can imitate human movements, according to a study led by an official at the Kinosaki Marine World ...

The tsunami triggered by the earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula damaged oyster and other aquaculture facilities in coastal areas in Japan.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will not deliver a prime ministerial statement on Aug. 15, the 80th anniversary of the end of ...

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

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

Interrogations of suspects conducted behind closed doors often raise questions such as whether confessions were coerced or whether the questioning influenced the statements given. Efforts to record ...

A 75-year-old man died Friday while climbing Mt. Fuji on a tour, the season’s first fatality to occur on the Yamanashi ...

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

During the recent House of Councillors election campaign, measures to combat rising prices were the focus of debate. But strengthening the nation’s defense capabilities and reforming the social ...