The brutal cost of Okinawa convinced Allied planners that invading mainland Japan could become a catastrophe on an ...

Powerful Typhoon No. 6 was expected to bring heavy rain and violent winds to Okinawa Prefecture on June 1 before veering ...

A man in his 70s who went missing after heading into woodland to harvest mushrooms in Iwate, Japan, was found dead following ...

Once widespread in Japan, the colorful birds went from being fairly commonplace in the country to being on the verge of ...

Eight crested ibises were released into the wild in a Japanese town decades after the birds went extinct in the country.

Crested ibises, designated as a special natural monument, have been released into the wild in the first event of its kind on ...

BEIJING, June 7 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted near east coast of Honshu, Japan at 1852 GMT on Saturday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, ...

Researchers characterized the oral microbiomes of the Japanese population across time by analyzing the DNA preserved in ...

While Japan is known globally for everything from a centuries-old culture and modern pop culture to its cuisine, those who have visited the country even once will also associate it with a robust train ...

It is now the seventh day since the 20-year-old Auburn University student went missing during a family vacation in Japan.

Researchers have characterized the oral microbiomes of the Japanese population across time by analyzing the DNA preserved in ...

The crested ibis conservation effort has been underway for decades. This bird species went extinct on Japan's Honshu island ...