A Japanese academic, who was based in Hong Kong for 25 years, and her British former colleague recently published a book investigating the lives of Japanese who were buried in a cemetery in the then ...

Hamas-led militants freed eight hostages on Thursday in the latest release since a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip took hold ...

The space between the two sinkholes that had already opened in a prefectural road in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, collapsed ...

Fuji Media Holdings, Inc. on Thursday revised down its net profit forecast by 66.2% to ¥9.8 billion for the fiscal year ending in March 2025, due to many television commercials having been suspended.

A shocking accident occurred in which a road suddenly collapsed, even though there had been no earthquake, and a truck ...

A ski resort in Gunma Prefecture that suffered a copper cable theft and became unable to operate many of its ski lifts, has ...

Toyota Motor sold 10.8 million vehicles in 2024, it said on Thursday, remaining the world’s top-selling automaker for a fifth ...

Someiyoshino cherry blossoms are expected to bloom March 21 in central Tokyo, the earliest bloom date this spring among urban ...

Japan has rebuffed a U.N. committee by demanding that Japan’s contribution to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) not be allocated to the committee, which issued a ...

Champion shogi player Sota Fujii holds a haori coat during a ceremony on Wednesday at a hotel in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo.

Many railroad fans gathered by the tracks on Wednesday to bid farewell to the Shinkansen inspection train nicknamed “Doctor ...

The government is working toward setting up a base for an “active cyber defense” system near the Defense Ministry head office ...