The Japan Meteorological Agency downgraded the tsunami warning issued for areas facing the Pacific coast from Ibaraki to ...

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 ...

A powerful earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.7 struck off the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia at about 8:25 a.m. on ...

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 ...

Among the close-range hibakusha atomic bomb survivors who were within 500 meters of the hypocenter of the atomic bomb in ...

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, ...

The Liberal Democratic Party has decided to hold a general meeting of its members from both houses of the Diet to discuss the ...