SAITAMA - The Konosu Fireworks Festival, one of Japan's largest fireworks events, set a Guinness World Record for the number ...

TOKYO - Physical fitness among Japanese women in their 30s and 40s has been declining, according to the Sports Agency's ...

Japan is stepping up efforts to reduce its dependence on China for essential medicines and rare earth minerals, with ...

OSAKA - Osaka's Midosuji boulevard and the Champs-Elysees in Paris have officially established a sister street partnership, ...

Police in Saitama Prefecture are urging hikers to submit climbing plans before heading into the mountains during the busy ...

Highly poisonous mushrooms capable of causing severe skin damage through contact and even death if eaten are appearing in ...

Two men were killed and eight others injured in separate accidents involving traditional danjiri festival floats in Osaka ...

TOKYO - Construction of an underground tunnel for Japan's Linear Chuo Shinkansen in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward is expected to ...

Japan is expected to experience a warmer-than-normal winter as the El Nino phenomenon currently affecting the Pacific Ocean ...

A major new global project centered on the popular Japanese anime franchise Naruto was announced at New York Comic Con 2026, one of the world ...

SHIGA - The Otsu Festival, one of Shiga Prefecture's three major traditional festivals, was held in Otsu City on October 11th, featuring a procession of 13 elaborately decorated floats carrying ...

Two typhoons are moving across the Pacific east and southeast of Japan, with both expected to change course around the ...