Central Japan Railway Co. said Thursday it has temporarily halted construction work on a new high-speed maglev train line ...

Kyukichi Tsutsui, a former captain of a Japanese tuna fishing boat exposed to nuclear fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb ...

The Japanese government will start providing support for private companies to ramp up the development of geothermal power ...

The existence of institutions and social systems in Japan unfair to women in a wide range of fields has been pointed out. The ...

Kai the whale shark is seen at Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan in Osaka's Minato Ward on Nov. 1, 2023. (Mainichi/Koji Minemoto) ...

The Hyogo Prefecture city of Ashiya's election administration commission announced on Nov. 5 that there was an error during ...

TOKYO -- Children who are often asked how they are feeling or what their opinions are by adults tend to have a higher quality ...

TOKYO -- Terms like "bath-canceling," Japanese cartographer "Ino Tadataka," and "nature" may seem unrelated at first glance.

A 44-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly selling illegal drugs to former Olympus Corp. CEO Stefan Kaufmann, police ...

U.S. presidents usually pay lip service at least to being leaders of the free world, at the helm of a mighty democracy and ...

A total of 34 passengers on two flights carrying a group of high school students from Guam to Japan fell ill with symptoms of ...

With her selection as President-elect Donald Trump 's incoming White House chief of staff, veteran Florida political ...