Education officials in two cities in Japan failed to respond appropriately to incidents of sexual violence among students, ...

By Bill Emmott, independent writer, lecturer and international affairs consultant ...

The Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament went from two unbeaten leaders to four with one loss on the seventh day, Saturday, when ...

More than a dozen indoor shoes were stolen from a child care facility here in early November, and security cameras installed ...

A sample of fuel debris was recently retrieved for the first time from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station's No. 2 ...

Five foreign-capitalized companies are conducting surveys or exploratory drilling to develop gold mines in at least 42 ...

A freight train derailed in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Saturday, disrupting some passenger and commercial ...

The government will designate Japan's first laboratory to handle deadly pathogens like the Ebola virus for research as soon ...

The 82-year-old son of a Japanese migrant to the Philippines, who had lived his entire life there as a stateless person, ...

A 13-month-old boy died at a hospital after choking on his lunch at a licensed day care center in this city's Kita Ward on ...

Every autumn, dead mantises can be seen lying on the asphalt of roads. A type of parasitic worm may be leading the creatures ...

J-League third-division champions Omiya Ardija are set to undergo a rebranding following their purchase by Austrian energy ...