The strawberry picking season has arrived. A tourist farm in the city of Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture, is busy with visitors.

The increased focus on foreign travelers follows the death of a Hong Kong woman on the outskirts of Otaru. The 61-year-old ...

All 12 Nippon Professional Baseball teams began their spring training workouts Saturday, with many of them in indoor ...

A bureau chief who oversaw police investigations into Aum Shinrikyo said he feels responsible for the “indecision” on a crackdown that allowed the cult to commit its deadly gas attack in Tokyo in 1995 ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...

A Thai PhD student went missing on Kyushu Island, Japan. She was last seen near her university at around 10am on January 23.

To address this challenge, a research team led by Professor Tatsuo Nozaki (Waseda University, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), The University of Tokyo ... the Makimine ...

Aftershocks with a maximum seismic intensity of lower 5 on the Japanese scale of 7 could ... centered in the Hyuganada Sea off the coast of Miyazaki Prefecture, occurred at 9:19 p.m. with its ...

The Yomiuri Giants were forced indoors by rain for the second straight year, but it didn’t dampen their spirits on the opening day of spring training camps for Japan pro baseball’s 12 teams on ...

A theme park in central Japan featuring characters and scenes from Studio Ghibli's animation films such as "My Neighbor ...