YAMAGATA--Winter in Japan’s northern Tohoku region is often cast as a surreal spectacle concerning the Zao mountain ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering calling a ⁠snap parliamentary election in the ‌first half of ‍February, ...

Firefighters continued to battle a wildfire on Jan. 10 on Mount Ogiyama straddling the Yamanashi Prefecture cities of ...

The municipal assemblies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are urging the government to maintain its three non-nuclear principles of ...

According to the traditional Japanese calendar, this year is Hinoe-Uma, or the “Fire Horse” year, which recurs every 60 years ...

The first Homo sapiens to arrive in the Americas may have originated in a region covering today’s Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the ...

While bear sightings and attacks have surged in northern Japan, wild deer are also causing a record number of traffic ...

Japan banned the production and use of asbestos in 2006, but new health cases caused by the carcinogen continue to emerge ...

SEOUL--South Korean ‌President Lee ‍Jae Myung will visit Japan on Jan. 13 and 14 for a ‍summit ​with Japan's Prime Minister ...

Tokyo police have arrested an executive of a company that manages fan clubs and organizes events on suspicion of producing ...

China and Japan — frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured, bloody history they still struggle to navigate — are freshly at each other’s rhetorical throats as 2026 begins. And ...

Close aides to Saitama Governor Motohiro Ono were surprised by the apparent turnaround in his thinking about the Kurdish ...