The House of Councillors July 20 election exposes the cracks in Japan’s political strongholds and the growing regional-urban ...

TOKYO -- As Japan faces increasingly severe damage from intense rainfall brought on by a weather phenomenon called "linear ...

Typhoon Nari crossed Japan ’s northernmost island of Hokkaido early on Tuesday, the first storm in almost a decade to scale ...

A small, old castle was found in the mountains of Hyogo Prefecture in March. Researchers found the castle using artificial ...

The Shinmoedake volcano, located on the border of Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures, continued to erupt on Thursday, July 3, ...

The 50th and final H2A liquid-fuel rocket was launched from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan at 1:33 a.m. on ...

Japan has warned of a 70–80% chance of a magnitude 8–9 earthquake along the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years, which ...

Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...

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A “lawless” zone here overrun by foreign visitors and plagued by bad behavior has been tamed thanks to a multi-government “model” plan to counter overtourism.

In a landmark moment for the state, Nagaland chief minister Dr. Neiphiu Rio delivered the keynote address at a special ...