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 ...

Kimiya Yui and three other crew members are bound for the International Space Station after lifting off from NASA’s Kennedy ...

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

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

President Donald Trump on Friday called for the Federal Reserve’s board of governors to usurp the power of Fed Chair Jerome Powell, criticizing the head of the U.S. central bank for not cutting ...

The U.S. stock market had its worst day since May on Friday after the government reported a sharp slowdown in hiring and ...