Education officials in two cities in Japan failed to respond appropriately to incidents of sexual violence among students, ...

Anderson Lopes hit a hat-trick as Yokohama F Marinos came from behind to win 4-3 at struggling Jubilo Iwata on Saturday in ...

By Bill Emmott, independent writer, lecturer and international affairs consultant ...

More than a dozen indoor shoes were stolen from a child care facility here in early November, and security cameras installed ...

The government will designate Japan's first laboratory to handle deadly pathogens like the Ebola virus for research as soon ...

Five foreign-capitalized companies are conducting surveys or exploratory drilling to develop gold mines in at least 42 ...

A sample of fuel debris was recently retrieved for the first time from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station's No. 2 ...

A 13-month-old boy died at a hospital after choking on his lunch at a licensed day care center in this city's Kita Ward on ...

A freight train derailed in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Saturday, disrupting some passenger and commercial ...

Every autumn, dead mantises can be seen lying on the asphalt of roads. A type of parasitic worm may be leading the creatures ...

The 82-year-old son of a Japanese migrant to the Philippines, who had lived his entire life there as a stateless person, ...

The Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament went from two unbeaten leaders to four with one loss on the seventh day, Saturday, when ...