Some 4,600 new adults dressed in flashy kimonos and other attire attended a coming-of-age ceremony here on Jan. 12, one day ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 struck southwestern Japan on Monday, with no immediate reports of injury or damage, and ...

A former employee of MUFG Bank was arrested Tuesday over the alleged theft of valuables from customers' safe deposit boxes, ...

The city government of Kyoto said Tuesday it will raise its lodging tax for people staying at hotels and other accommodations ...

A man recently died after falling from a shopping center in the heart of the Japanese capital, in the process injuring a man ...

A Thai woman who was detained at a police station in Ibaraki Prefecture died on the morning of Jan. 12, the police announced ...

Transportation systems in southwest Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture continue to experience disruptions on Jan. 14, a day after a ...

At least three people were injured in the wake of a magnitude 6.6 earthquake that struck off the coast of Miyazaki Prefecture ...

Social media has become informational infrastructure used by many people today. But at the same time, inaccurate information ...

There is one lone statue in the park that has nothing to do with the battle. It is described as "the ghost of Takeda Shingen, ...

Rie Tajiri, owner of Tajiri Thin Section Lab in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, carefully grinds down a glass slide-mounted ...