A strong earthquake struck southwestern Japan on Wednesday, measuring upper 5, the fourth-highest level on the Japanese ...

The liquidator of the Unification Church, a controversial religious group ordered to disband, on Wednesday began accepting ...

A hall linked to Buddhist saint Kukai on Miyajima Island burned to the ground on Wednesday, local police and firefighters in the city of Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, said the same day. According ...

Japan's Environment Ministry has said it will start surveys in late June on bear habitats and populations in the Tohoku ...

A man with a fruit knife attacked three people around noon on Tuesday at a Japanese restaurant in Shanghai World Financial ...

Paris, May 19 (Jiji Press)--Finance ministers and top central bankers from the Group of Seven major industrialized nations expressed their concerns Tuesday over the impacts of the prolonged Middle ...

Lost Land, which won the Special Orizzonti Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival, tells a story of Rohingya ...

Tokyo, May 19 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Hitachi Ltd. said Tuesday that it has begun collaborating with U.S. startup Anthropic to develop systems for infrastructure, including electricity transmission and ...

A survey on gender equality at Japan’s newspapers and news agencies found that 58.3% of women think that men get preferential ...

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Monday that her administration is considering compiling a supplementary budget for ...

Andong, South Korea, May 19 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung confirmed Tuesday that the two nations will consider concrete measures for ...

Japan's Fisheries Agency said Monday that fishing quotas for snow crabs on the Sea of Japan side will be reduced for a ...