According to the Japan Weather Association, successful heat acclimation makes it easier to sweat and reduces the likelihood ...

The Miyamakasumizakura at Yamagata City Wildflower Park originated from natural hybridization of the Miyamazakura tree and ...

An elderly woman was found collapsed on a street in Chiba near Tokyo on Sunday afternoon and was later confirmed dead at a ...

A century has passed since the promulgation in April 1925 of the Peace Preservation Law, which stripped away freedom of ...

Shohei Ohtani extended his hit streak to nine Major League Baseball games for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday, going 2-f ...

Hamas said Sunday that the last living American hostage in Gaza, Edan Alexander, will be released as part of efforts ...

In the balloting to choose the next pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost secured 105 of 133 votes to become the new leader of the ...

TOMIOKA, Gunma -- A bank worker in Gunma prefecture helped a man not lose money in a "romance scam." A bad person tried to ...

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A 14th-century Buddhist statue, stolen in October 2012 and taken to South Korea, was returned to a Japanese temple on Monday, ...

A Chinese research vessel was seen lowering a pipe-like object into the sea within Japan's exclusive economic zone on Sunday, ...

Japan posted a record current account surplus of 30.38 trillion yen ($208 billion) in fiscal 2024, marking a high for the ...