Astronaut Takuya Onishi, who will leave the International Space Station (ISS) this week, gave encouragement to his newly ...

Hitachi, Ltd. is considering selling its domestic major household appliance business, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Monday.

A pleasant thump-thump sound echoed throughout the Tsumugi no Yakata museum in Yuki, Ibaraki Prefecture, each time the weft ...

Ghost stories, called “kaidan” in Japanese, are enjoying a quiet boom in the country. Live performances by popular ghost ...

A scorching 41.6 C was recorded in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, at 2:20 p.m. Tuesday, shattering the all-time high for Japan.

Oyster farmers along Japan’s coast damaged by the tsunami triggered by the earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula have ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba was to announce Tuesday a major policy shift to boost rice output and stabilize the nation’s ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed his desire to mark 80 years since the end of World War II with a personal message, ...

Australia has chosen Japan as its partner in developing a new model of warship, according to announcements by both countries’ ...

Persistent inflation was reflected in Japan’s average minimum wage, which is expected to surpass the ¥1,100 threshold for the ...

For the baseball purists who like to see pitchers bat, the last holdout has succumbed to modern times. Japan pro baseball’s ...

A son of a Japanese man, who was left behind in the Philippines during the turmoil after the end of World War II, was ...