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

Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture was the nation’s top consumer of gyoza dumplings in 2024 for the second year in a row, ...

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

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

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

While Japanese women may be catching up with men in terms of pay, the same cannot be said for those with disabilities.

It means the state must never meddle with academic matters, no matter how unwelcome they may be to the powers that be, ...

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

The Ishiba Cabinet adopted a bill on March 7 to transform the Science Council of Japan, a governmental agency, into a ...

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.

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

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