A sample of fuel debris was recently retrieved for the first time from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station's No. 2 ...

The government will designate Japan's first laboratory to handle deadly pathogens like the Ebola virus for research as soon ...

A 13-month-old boy died at a hospital after choking on his lunch at a licensed day care center in this city's Kita Ward on ...

More than a dozen indoor shoes were stolen from a child care facility here in early November, and security cameras installed ...

A freight train derailed in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Saturday, disrupting some passenger and commercial ...

Every autumn, dead mantises can be seen lying on the asphalt of roads. A type of parasitic worm may be leading the creatures ...

Japan's Yuma Kagiyama led after the men's short program and Hana Yoshida after the women's at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure ...

Koreshige Anami, Japan's ambassador to China, who sought to ease tensions over visits to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine by ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, third from right, heads to take a train bound for Ukraine on Nov. 15, 2024, in ...

LIMA (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday he and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to foster ...

Five foreign-capitalized companies are conducting surveys or exploratory drilling to develop gold mines in at least 42 ...

Four Japan pitchers combined for 17 strikeouts Friday in a 6-3 see-saw Premier12 opening-round win over South Korea, with ...