Local governments around Japan are using digital signboards, long an instrument for corporate advertising, to convey crucial ...

TAKAMATSU--Nurse Chiaki Nakamura once had to search for two weeks for a hotel that would take a terminal cancer patient who ...

SAKAI--Researchers got an almost unheard of chance March 7 to step foot atop an imposing keyhole-shaped imperial burial mound ...

Two green bulldozers smoothly spread a mixture of pebble and cement at the construction site of a mountainous dam, followed by four vibratory rollers that compacted the fresh layer into place.

The Ofunato government on March 7 partially lifted evacuation orders for a huge forest fire here, bringing long-awaited ...

KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Prefecture--For third-grader Yuki Harasawa, a video on YouTube about plastic waste was the last straw. She ...

Pianos from the time of Beethoven and Mozart form part of a collection here that was lovingly put together by a piano tuner ...

The government adopted a bill to incorporate the Science Council of Japan, but also strengthen state oversight, triggering ...

TAIPEI--Along with fulminating against the United States, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi reasserted China’s South China Sea ...

Economy and foreign ministers of Japan and Britain agreed Friday to promote free and open international trade at their first ...

As the massive tsunami surged over a 6.4-meter seawall, it swallowed the town below. Along the railway embankment, people ...

Snow and slushy rain were forecast in Tokyo and mountainous areas in the southern Kanto region over the weekend of March 8-9.