Is there a need for Japan's national government to continue its pork-barreling that is fraught with problems? It wouldn't be ...

What should parents do if their child suddenly says they don't want to go to school -- a trend sometimes seen after Japan's ...

OSAKA -- A man with an admission ticket to the "international exposition" in 1940, which was scheduled to be held mainly in ...

Three Chinese men were arrested Wednesday for alleged possession of several thousand protected hermit crabs in the ...

KYOTO -- A "yabusame," or horseback archery, ritual was held at a Shinto shrine in this ancient Japanese capital to pray for ...

Wild sea otters are raising a pup in the sea near Cape Kiritappu in the town of Hamanaka, Hokkaido. According to a group that ...

Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani homered for the second game in a row, taking his tally to 10 for the season, in a 5-4 ...

Tokyo stocks ended mixed Wednesday, with buying supported by hopes trade tensions between the United States and China ease, ...

Police on May 5 arrested an 80-year-old local woman after she turned herself in at a police box here and said, ...

SUZU, Ishikawa -- Salt production using the "agehama" method, which had been practiced in the northern Noto Peninsula's ...

Japan's space agency is hoping to make the samples collected by its Hayabusa2 space probe from an asteroid recognized as ...

A 1-year-old boy has been found floating in a drainage ditch in western Japan and confirmed dead at a hospital, police said ...