Some 57% of respondents to a recent Mainichi Shimbun survey did not support the government and ruling party's plan to give ...

Trouble between a passenger and a conductor aboard a bullet train on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line in northeastern Japan ...

The Expo 2025 opened in Osaka on Sunday with more than 10,000 people singing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to celebrate the ...

TAKIZAWA, Iwate -- This north Japan city is crowdfunding using the "hometown tax" donation system to keep an ancient ...

IGA, Mie -- This month, the municipal government here has begun issuing an original municipal "resident's certificate" for ...

The World Exposition in Osaka opened Sunday, kicking off a six-month event centered on designing a sustainable future society ...

Ritsu Doan set up the 90th-minute winner to give Freiburg a 2-1 victory over Japan teammate Ko Itakura's Borussia ...

When Marco Gustavo first arrived in Japan from Brazil 30 years ago, following his father's decision to work abroad, his ...

The PRIME telescope, operated by Osaka University and others in South Africa, which can potentially study the Milky Way's ...

TSU -- The roof of a Western-style church near the Ise Jingu shinto shrine in Mie Prefecture is adorned with "onigawara" ...

April marks a new fiscal year in Japan, and many people begin new jobs or are transferred within their companies. A study by ...

Falls are a common occurrence among the elderly in Japan, and recent research has pointed to the brain's misinterpretation of ...