Four workers who were doing drainage and other work on a sewer system apparently fell into a manhole in Gyoda, Saitama ...

Online medical examinations for livestock are becoming more common, particularly in Hokkaido, and a part of the reason is due ...

Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, recorded 40.1 C on Saturday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, marking four ...

A suspect in the Thursday attack of a Japanese woman and her child in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, ...

Kimiya Yui and three other crew members are bound for the International Space Station after lifting off from NASA’s Kennedy ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will not deliver a prime ministerial statement on Aug. 15, the 80th anniversary of the end of ...

The record-breaking heat and droughts this summer have raised concerns about the impact on crops, and high temperatures and ...

Shikoku Railway Co. (JR Shikoku) has started to offer a boxed meal, or ekiben, in a case modeled after one of the famous ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy on Friday visited a food distribution site in the Gaza Strip operated by an ...

The government and related academic organizations have launched smartphone apps that provide alerts when intense heat ...

The city of Hiroshima, known throughout the world for its advocacy of peace, once was a “military capital,” where people ...

A shooting at a Montana bar left four people dead Friday, prompting a lockdown in a neighborhood several miles away as ...