The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that ...
The prosecution described the crime as "exploiting women for profit" and sought a sentence of two years and six months in ...
Grand champion Terunofuji, the only current yokozuna, has decided to retire, the Japan Sumo Association said Friday.
The sun doesn't come out much during the winter in Fukui, Ishikawa and Toyama prefectures, the trio making up the Hokuriku ...
The Japanese government started a process Friday to compensate victims of forced sterilization surgery under a now-defunct ...
For a long time, Mustafa has been living in Japan on "provisional release," and he currently works at demolition sites. He ...
A now 88-year-old man who narrowly survived the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated this west Japan city still ...
Nintendo Co. said Thursday it will release the successor to its Switch game console, which has become one of its best-selling ...
Documents containing the personal information of an individual related to a traffic accident went missing after the famous ...
Hyogo Prefectural Police arrested Hidekazu Yanai, a company executive in Kobe's Chuo Ward, on suspicion of violating the ...
The chance of a megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years has increased to approximately 80 percent, ...
Mongolians and others living in Japan visit the temple as a place of spiritual comfort, and the Mongolia-born former sumo ...