SAITAMA, Japan -- A drone delivery service operated by mobile carrier KDDI has successfully run a field test to a hard-to-reach Japanese village in hopes of improving logistics for isolated ...

Rice prices in Japan have remained high despite hopes that they would normalize after the government announced plans two ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries announced on Monday that it will hold an auction for ...

With efforts to find a driver who fell in expected to take about three months, there is no concrete timeline in place on when ...

SAITAMA—Parents and children of Chinese heritage are an increasingly common sight at entrance exam venues for competitive ...

Since the wildfire began Wednesday, at least one person has died, and more than 80 homes have burned, local authorities said.

A forest fire in northeastern Japan has scorched the largest area of land in more than 30 years, the central government said ...

A prominent Japanese hibakusha atomic bomb survivor expressed regret Sunday over the Japanese government's decision not to ...

Reports of suspicious phone calls and home visits by scammers posing as government officials have climbed since the sinkhole ...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has decided to release government rice reserves as a measure against ...

The infrastructure ministry said Friday that emergency inspections on sewage pipes, which were conducted in the wake of last month's road cave-in in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, have found ...

Japanese crews shifted their search for a truck driver who was swallowed by a sinkhole in his vehicle from the site of the sinkhole to an underground sewage pipe. The Saitama Prefecture government ...