The Niigata City Board of Education is starting to serve school lunch to every student at all municipal junior high schools ...

What stood out for Japan was the low level of satisfaction with quality of life. Only 13% of Japanese pollees answered that ...

The head of Japan's junior coalition partner said Friday he does not rule out anything to support the economy, hit by rising ...

Lightning struck a school field in Nara on the evening of April 10, sending six students to hospital, including one in ...

The spate of high court rulings in Japan that homosexual individuals being disallowed from having their partnerships legally ...

A spotted seal was born at Marinepia Nihonkai, an aquarium in the city of Niigata, on April 4. The baby seal is a female and ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday renewed his complaint that the decades-old U.S.-Japan security treaty is ...

The history of the former Soma family residence -- a manor built in Hakodate, Hokkaido, in 1908 that was the private ...

Tokyo stocks ended Friday morning down over 4 percent after the Nikkei briefly shed nearly 2,000 points, as shares were sold ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday instructed his close aide Ryosei Akazawa to conduct upcoming tariff negotiations with ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will hold one-on-one debates with opposition leaders from 3 p.m. on April 23 at the parliament, ...

A fossilized tooth of a cartilaginous fish found in Japan's northernmost prefecture Hokkaido in 2013 is of a newly discovered ...