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 ...

Sony Group Corp. said Friday its sales hit a record high for the six months to September while net profit rose 36.5 percent, ...

Japan's Yuma Kagiyama took the early lead after the men's short program at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating's NHK Trophy ...

A robot that has spent months inside the ruins of a nuclear reactor at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant delivered a ...

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

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

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 ...

(This is Part 18 of the "Learning from Japanese picture books" series, which introduces recommended Japanese picture books, ...

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