Heavy rain battered parts of central Japan on Thursday, causing landslides and flooding with a series of reports of cars becoming submerged and calls for rescue. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued ...

Sumo chiefs are planning measures to beat Japan's increasingly punishing summer heat, including avoiding venues that don't have air conditioning and lightening the load on weary wrestlers. Japan ...

Japan's farm ministry is set to buy back rice it released from its stockpile in 2025 amid calls by farmers concerned about a price collapse, sources close to the matter said Wednesday. The Ministry of ...

United Airlines Inc will launch direct flights between San Francisco and Okinawa as well as between Los Angeles and Osaka starting March 2027. The announcement came as Japan remains a popular ...

Police in Tokyo have arrested a woman in her 20s on suspicion of abusing her three-year-old daughter by dropping her onto the floor at home, fracturing the child's right leg. According to ...

North Korea will send around 100 athletes competing in ‌14 sports to the Asian Games in Japan later this year, the secretary general ‌of the country's Olympic Committee ⁠has told a Tokyo-based ...

Another example is handheld fans that people wave in front of their face. The muscle exercise from this generates more body heat than the fanning of the face disperses. The only benefit is perhaps a ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc on Monday completed its third year of releasing treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, with 172,700 tons released ...

A moderate earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 rattled eastern Japan, including the Tokyo area, early Sunday, injuring more than 20 people, most of them slightly, officials said. There was ...

About 1,000 people towed the roughly 400-ton keep of a traditional castle in northeastern Aomori Prefecture on Sunday, moving it 109 centimeters closer to its original position after it was relocated ...

Japan's justice ministry said Friday it will cancel a collaboration with a controversial Netflix dating show featuring ex-juvenile delinquents, following backlash against what some called the ...

UEFA chief Aleksander Ceferin says he is "not interested" in replacing Gianni Infantino but warned the under-fire FIFA president must quit or face a leadership challenge. Infantino has come under ...