Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at a Buddhist temple in downtown Tokyo, eagerly stretching their hands to catch the dried ...

Walking with an Akita Inu dog,” a fitness program to help people enjoy nature through trail walking, is proving popular here.

Neighboring municipalities have grown irate over a surprise plan to build an interim storage facility here for spent nuclear ...

If you are afraid of heights, please bear with it for a little while,” the train driver called out while blowing shimmering ...

Rescue workers completed building a ramp in a desperate attempt to reach a truck driver trapped for days inside a sinkhole ...

Staff in the Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet at the airport here brace themselves for a stampede every time an Air Koryo flight ...

Even though the Tokaido Shinkansen boasts some of the world’s most sophisticated high-speed rail technologies, it has made ...

The chairman and president of Fuji Television Network Inc. will resign over the reported sexual misconduct scandal involving ...

In a dramatic come-from-behind victory, ozeki Hoshoryu clinched his second championship on Jan. 26, virtually ensuring his ...

A former correctional officer offered a rare first-hand account of the execution of a death row inmate he participated in ...

A cherry blossom festival held here as a harbinger of early spring in the Izu Peninsula is now under way, but ironically not many flowers are open due to cold weather.

NARA--A festival that involves setting fire to a grassy mountain slope was held at Mount Wakakusayama here to herald the ...