A library renovated from a beloved municipal public bath opened for visitors in Nankan, Kumamoto Prefecture, in October.

A research team led by Prof. Shinji Sugiura at Kobe University announced in an academic journal on Thursday that they ...

The world karuta championship, using the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu poetry anthology, was held at Omi Jingu Shrine in Otsu for the ...

Service on the inbound and outbound lines of the Yamagata Shinkansen between Yamagata and Yonezawa stations in Yamagata ...

Kashima Antlers clinched a record-extending ninth J.League top division title with a 2-1 win over Yokohama F.Marinos.

The Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, submitted a bill to reduce the number of ...

Tomihiro Tanaka, head of the Japan branch of the Unification Church, will soon resign from his post, according to sources ...

The government and ruling parties have begun debating on raising the income tax rate by 1 percentage point starting in ...

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday released its National Security Strategy, a guiding document for ...

A former male teacher in Nagoya was indicted Friday for allegedly possessing sexually explicit images of young girls created ...

Fantastic lighting has given a touch of fairyland to Hiroshima’s Peace Boulevard, which runs east to west through the center ...

The U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuela has led “elements within the Cuban regime” to reach out to the U.S. about what ...