The Naha District Public Prosecutors Office on Sept. 20 indicted a U.S. Marine on a charge of raping and injuring a local ...

An emergency heavy rain warning was issued Saturday for Noto in Ishikawa Prefecture, the region hit hard by a magnitude-7.6 ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged Saturday to enable people who were exposed to the U.S. atomic bombing ...

Major Japanese convenience store operator Lawson Inc., telecommunications giant KDDI Corp. and Lawson's parent company ...

A large arcade sits along a tourist-crowded street in this west Japan city, and what sets it apart from most modern arcades ...

Offshore wind power generation, which involves building giant wind turbines in the ocean, could play a key role in helping ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida left for the United States on Saturday to meet with President Joe Biden and attend a meeting of ...

Shohei Ohtani keeps showing a flair for the dramatic during his historic first season with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Riders were under the influence of alcohol in 40% of single-vehicle accidents involving electric kick scooters that occurred ...

A new Self-Defense Forces base on an uninhabited southwestern Japan island that is scheduled to host U.S. fighter jet dril ...

A Japanese court will hand down a ruling Thursday in the retrial of an 88-year-old man for a 1966 quadruple murder in which ...

Silvio Almeida's coffee plantation sits at an ideal altitude on a Brazilian hillside, whose clay-rich soil does well at ...