A 58-year-old woman died after a small car she was driving fell down a cliff in Kumano, Mie Prefecture, on Wednesday. The car ...

The Yomiuri Online releases “easy Japanese” news about the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo on its website to help foreign residents ...

Concerns are mounting after it became apparent that there is no joint document outlining the tariff agreement between Japan ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia’s Far East early Wednesday, causing tsunami waves to wash ashore ...

As many as 107 herons found dead in a park in central Toyama last month died because the city cut down trees where they were ...

The temperature in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, reached 41.2 C on Wednesday, the highest ever to be recorded in Japan.

Toyota 7203.T said on Wednesday its worldwide output and sales reached record highs for the first six months of the year, ...

More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed during the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday. Israeli ...

Operations on the Tohoku and Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train lines were not affected by a tsunami warning issued Wednesday ...

A 40-centimeter-high tsunami was observed at Tokachi, Hokkaido, at around 10:51 a.m. following a powerful offshore earthquake ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba issued instructions on Wednesday morning in response to the tsunami warning issued following an ...