A postelection survey conducted by Kyodo News showed Friday that 56.4 percent of House of Councillors members do not favor a ...

The PR posters for this year's Nagaoka Fireworks Festival in Niigata Prefecture are sparking conversation for not featuring ...

The scenes of otters playing in slidelike water channels once disappeared at Ichikawa City Zoo in Chiba Prefecture, but can ...

A 32-year-old man was fatally stabbed Friday, allegedly by his colleague, at a sushi restaurant in Tokyo's busy Ikebukuro ...

Four women have been arrested for allegedly soliciting customers for prostitution in the Kabukicho entertainment district in ...

The International Crime Division of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) on July 24 referred a 39-year-old woman to ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's resignation has become unavoidable. The ruling coalition has now suffered crushing defeats in ...

Coordinators for international relations from around the world are responsible for international exchange activities across ...

Okunoshima has become famous globally as Japan's Instagrammable "Rabbit Island," but little is known about its dark history ...

A Latvian staff member at the World Exposition in Osaka has drawn over half a million social media followers after posting ...

As Japan continues to see sweltering summer heat across the country, juvenile Japanese macaques in southwest Japan's Oita ...

A 4-year-old female polar bear named "Ho-chan" received a big ice block with her favorite apples inside on July 19 at Tennoji ...