A pleasant thump-thump sound echoed throughout the Tsumugi no Yakata museum in Yuki, Ibaraki Prefecture, each time the weft ...

Persistent inflation was reflected in Japan’s average minimum wage, which is expected to surpass the ¥1,100 threshold for the ...

A scorching 41.6 C was recorded in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, at 2:20 p.m. Tuesday, shattering the all-time high for Japan.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba was to announce Tuesday a major policy shift to boost rice output and stabilize the nation’s ...

Australia has chosen Japan as its partner in developing a new model of warship, according to announcements by both countries’ ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed his desire to mark 80 years since the end of World War II with a personal message, ...

A son of a Japanese man, who was left behind in the Philippines during the turmoil after the end of World War II, was ...

For the baseball purists who like to see pitchers bat, the last holdout has succumbed to modern times. Japan pro baseball’s ...

The streaked shearwater, a seabird classified as near threatened on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ...

Oyster farmers along Japan’s coast damaged by the tsunami triggered by the earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula have ...

Russian former President Dmitry Medvedev blamed NATO countries on Monday for the abandonment of a moratorium on short- and ...

Canada said on Monday it delivered humanitarian assistance through airdrops to Gaza, which has been under a devastating ...