Many people visited the Tsukui Yamayuri-en residential facility for people with disabilities in the city of Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, on Sunday, the 10th anniversary of a mass s ...

A total of 45 local governments and regional groups across Japan had offered to host regional offices of the country's disaster management agency, expected to be launched in November, as of Friday, ...

Long lines formed from early morning at "kabayaki" grilled eel stores and restaurants across Tokyo on Sunday, this year's Day of the Ox, with the popular delicacy attracting customers despite ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee on Sunday decided to inscribe the Asuka-Fujiwara archaeological sites, a collection of Asuka-period ruins in the western Japan prefecture of Nara, on the World ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi spent significantly less time attending intensive deliberations of the budget committees of both chambers of the Diet, the country's parliament, than her recent ...

Tadahito Iguchi, a former manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines, a Japanese professional baseball team, has been appointed the new manager of the Japanese national baseball team, nicknamed Samurai Japan, ...

Temperatures in Japan reached 40 degrees Celsius or higher for the fifth consecutive day on Saturday, the longest such streak in the country, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. Under the ...

A memorial ceremony was held Saturday to remember the 19 victims of the 2016 mass stabbing at a care home for people with disabilities in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, a day before ...

A send-off event was held at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi for 22 assistant language teachers and others selected to be dispatched from India to Japan under the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program ...

Japan's Princess Akiko of Mikasa will make an unofficial visit to Bhutan from Aug. 7 to 14, the Imperial Household Agency has said. According to the announcement on Friday, the princess will attend a ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Saturday reiterated that enough crude oil supplies have been secured in the country for the time being. In response to a renewed deterioration in the ...

Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the opposition Democratic Party for the People, on Friday strongly criticized Hirofumi Yoshimura, leader of the Japan Innovation Party, the country's junior ruling party, fo ...