Japan's Cabinet has approved a draft supplementary budget of 18.3 trillion yen, or roughly 117 billion dollars, for the ...

Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force will end its support for capturing bears Sunday, as scheduled. The GSDF had been helping in ...

Officials of Oita City, southwestern Japan, say a fire on the Saganoseki Peninsula has been fully extinguished, 10 days after ...

Fathers in Japan are stepping up at home, and a record number are taking paternity leave, but they most are finding their ...

The leader of a political group in Japan has been indicted for allegedly defaming a former assembly member of Hyogo ...

The Tokyo High Court has overturned a lower court decision and ruled that legal provisions in Japan that fail to recognize ...

Akita's bears are bolder than ever, and it's changing daily life in the region for students and businesses alike.

Hokkaido Governor Suzuki Naomichi has suggested he will support the restart of a reactor at the Tomari nuclear power plant.

Two giant statues of a T. Rex parent and its child, which stand at a roadside rest area in Japan's Fukui Prefecture, have ...

The Louvre Museum in Paris says it will raise admission fees 45 percent for most non-European visitors from next year.

The National Museum of Japanese History boasts a vast collection that traces everyday life and culture through Japan's ...

Artisans in northeastern Japan are busy making glass horses representing next year's Chinese zodiac symbol. Japanese ...