In the wake of an extensive forest fire in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, the government has set up an information liaison office ...

Fourteen staff of seven teams have voluntarily reported to the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization that they have ...

Seven & i Holdings Co., the operator of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, announced Thursday that the founding Ito family ...

Two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife Betsy Arakawa have been found dead in their home in the U.S. state of ...

The construction of an anti-terrorism facility for the No. 7 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata ...

A wildfire in a forest in the Akasaki area of Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, continued to rage on Thursday, having burned an area ...

A tiny park in the town of Nagaizumi in Shizuoka Prefecture has been officially recognized as the smallest park in the world ...

More than 3,000 spectators enjoyed listening to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 “Choral” in concert at the Ryogoku Kokugikan, a ...

Firefighting efforts continued Thursday, a day after a forest fire broke out in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, and forced many ...

A wildfire that broke out on Tuesday in a forest area in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, has continued to spread, burning down an ...

Three junior and senior high school students have been arrested on suspicion of illegally logging into Rakuten Mobile’s ...

Mizuho Bank, Ltd. announced Thursday that its former employee stole ¥66 million from customers’ safe deposit boxes.