The Japan Meteorological Agency plans to issue ashfall warnings and advisories in the event of an eruption on any of the ...

In an apparent "rebellion" at an aquarium here, penguins on a diving platform ignored the instructions of a keeper, who ...

OSAKA—The Osakan “obachan” are back with their first new song in six years, showing off more leopard print than fans can ...

Previously classified personnel rosters of lesser-known wartime bacteriological units deployed in China, hidden since the end ...

MUKO, Kyoto Prefecture--The leafy pathway through a bamboo forest in the Arashiyama area of Kyoto is popular with tourists.

NAHA—The sight of white crabs with long, slender legs and tiny, dot-like eyes drew a yelp of astonishment from Yoshihisa ...

A ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker is under fire for describing a memorial dedicated to female student nurses who ...

BEIJING--Chinese worker Liu Shengzun lost two jobs in just one month as U.S. import tariffs shot up to triple digits in April ...

Recently, an Asahi Shimbun reporter climbed into Science Co.'s “Mirai (future) Human Washing Machine” at the Osaka Kansai ...

Mio Ikeda stumbled across a future hit product when she discovered “firm tofu” at U.S. supermarkets in 2018 soon after she ...

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 training aircraft after one of ...

Japan has embarked on a mission to create a battery system that can continuously generate electricity for a century under the ...