Japan's greenhouse gas emissions fell by 4% to a record low in the fiscal year ended March 2024, government data showed on ...

Bereaved families and others paid their respects to victims of one of the nation’s deadliest railway accidents that occurred ...

Fans of the four remaining giant pandas at Adventure World here and local businesses are bracing for their return to the ...

Writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa was born in 1892. In his 1925 autobiographical novella “Daidoji Shinsuke no Hansei” (Shinsuke ...

Toy pistols made in China that are just as lethal as proper handguns have been found to be circulating on internet shopping ...

NARA—The species resembling a "dragon" mummy that has long been kept in the Shosoin Repository here, a World Heritage site, ...

Signaling a notable shift in traditional grooming norms, hair removal is rapidly growing in popularity among Japanese men.

Sophia Fukushima thought she was “rather bad” at writing essays, but last summer she decided to put into words something that ...

We mourn the death of a leader who continued calling for the resolution of issues that crossed borders, such as global warming and nuclear weapons, by standing with the weak in a world now divided by ...

Japan’s largest test plant for direct air capture (DAC) technology, which combats global warming by extracting carbon dioxide ...

BANGKOK—As foreign tourism becomes increasingly important to the Japanese economy, Thai tourists stand out from the crowd by ...

Pyrotechnic artworks from the Omagari fireworks festival here will illuminate the sky over the 2025 Osaka Kansai Expo venue ...