Komeito Chief Representative Tetsuo Saito, during a meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday, urged Prime Minister ...

MORIOKA — A workshop introducing the Hosho school of Noh theater was held at the Sakurayama Shrine in Morioka on Nov. 9. The ...

SYDNEY (AFP-Jiji) — Covering your surfboard in bright lights sounds like an open invitation to great white sharks, but ...

The president of the Democratic Party for the People, Yuichiro Tamaki, has proposed building more nuclear power plants and expanding existing plants, among other energy policies, in a set of proposals ...

This illustration provided by Marcin Ambrozik shows plant-eating dinosaurs in Poland during the Early Jurassic period.

The government and investors have expressed their high hopes for the Yomiuri Stock Index (Yomiuri 333), saying it will expand ...

Safety advocates are suing the federal workplace safety regulator in an attempt to reveal more details about three fatalities ...

Oita District Court in southwestern Japan on Thursday sentenced a 23-year-old man to eight years in prison for driving a car ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako visited the Toshimagaoka cemetery in Tokyo’s Bunkyo Ward on Wednesday to pay ...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake hit Ishikawa Prefecture at 5:31 p.m. on Thursday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur — an ancient flying reptile — with a wing span ...

Vienna will splash the cash on lighting up its famed Christmas markets to bring festive cheer to struggling retailers.