With the price of rice skyrocketing, sake breweries are being left high and dry, struggling to procure raw ingredients as ...

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the ...

Did you enjoy the view today? The exit is this way,” the voice echoed through an elevator lobby on the observation deck in ...

OSAKA--Osaka Kansai Expo 2025 kicked off April 12 with a spectacular opening ceremony in the presence of Emperor Naruhito, ...

The humble rice ball, eaten in Japan for thousands of years, is seemingly more popular now than ever, with specialty ...

Ibaraki Governor Kazuhiko Oigawa brought a powerful recruiting pitch with him last year when he flew to India.

NAHA--A joint patrol involving Okinawa prefectural police and the U.S. military is to be mounted in the entertainment ...

After a three-and-a-half-hour interrogation, police officers wore down a 12-year-old girl and got her to “confess” to ...

An extensive system failure across central Japan that knocked out electronic toll collection (ETC) booths on major ...

NARA—Of the six teenagers rushed to the hospital after being struck by lightning in a schoolyard during an evening soccer ...

The education ministry on April 10 tasked an expert advisory panel to look into establishing a new teaching system that can ...

A new documentary film that depicts the long campaigns waged by two Okinawa governors against the concentration of U.S.