After Japan’s first execution of a prisoner in almost three years, the European Union and other countries responded with a ...

Suffering from steadily shrinking hauls, fishing communities around Japan are targeting something that is much more in ...

A drone-based tsunami detection is taking shape along this famed surfing coastline to ensure a speedy evacuation of ...

A relentless series of earthquakes has shaken Akusekijima island here in the remote Tokara island chain, causing sleepless ...

BANGKOK--Thailand’s Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office pending an investigation ...

Seeking relief from the brutal heat, I wandered into a botanical garden and found a cluster of “hangesho” (Chinese lizard's ...

Masanori Kin ran for a seat in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly on a policy of eliminating discrimination and promoting ...

The house that property consultant and ghost investigator Kazutoshi Kodama regularly surveys has a grim history: seven years ...

The period of ultra-low interest rates that allowed the government to borrow to pay for vital policies and administrative ...

The central government has designated 723 municipalities in 30 prefectures for ramping up disaster mitigation measures based ...

Japan’s average land price rose for the fourth consecutive year, with hubs for foreign tourists logging some of the sharpest ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) announced plans for a new overnight express train connecting Tokyo with the northeastern ...