The Self-Defense Forces on Feb. 28 joined in the battle against a raging forest fire here that has spread amid strong winds.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba traded in his usual suit for a blazer, jeans and sneakers for a surprise appearance at one of ...

Ethiopians Tadese Takele and Sutume Asefa Kebede won their divisions of the Tokyo Marathon on a nearly perfect spring day in ...

As Japan grappled with skyrocketing prices, spending on food by households in 2024 hit the highest level in 43 ...

Forest fires continued to devour wilderness and threaten communities in three mountainous prefectures on March 1 as ...

A nephew of the Japanese girl who became synonymous with the suffering caused by the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima handed ...

Sanriku Railway Co. based here is offering a special wedding package on a chartered retro-looking train that takes in scenic ...

Breweries were forced to rise from the ashes of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in a devastated area that once boasted of ...

This city in northwestern Kyushu represents another municipality that saved itself from possible oblivion by promoting a ...

SEOUL—A U.S. aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea on Sunday in a show of force, days after North Korea test-launched ...

Thousands of mourners attended a funeral on Saturday for a Taliban-linked cleric slain in a suicide bomb attack on a seminary ...

Wearing colorful robes and fearsome masks, the monks high stepped and spun around around the sandstone courtyard to the sound ...