Japan's Imperial Household Agency on Thursday released the official biography of the wife of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously ...

Japanese scientist Susumu Kitagawa and two others won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing porous ...

Japan's toy market is getting bigger, even though fewer children are being born. Old toys and characters from the Heisei era ...

A university in this southwest Japan city has launched an initiative to provide students with breakfast for just 100 yen ...

Rice grown in dry fields in the first year of trial cultivation has been harvested here recently to the joy of the people ...

Israel and Hamas have agreed to pause fighting in Gaza and release at least some hostages and prisoners in an agreement that ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party, led by new leader Sanae Takaichi, and the government are considering convening an ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. is considering decommissioning some older reactors at its nuclear power plant in ...

The yen continued its slide against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday in both European and New York trading, briefly sinking to ...

What new requirement has Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, introduced for its mayors following allegations of academic fraud?

SUITA, Osaka -- Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi met reporters on Oct. 7 with his wife, whom he calls his "comrade" in ...

Over 10,000 invasive fire ants along with at least 8,000 eggs, larvae and pupae were found at the Port of Tokyo's Aomi ...