The Astellas Pharma executive was sentenced to 3½ years in a case that has added strain to relations between Tokyo and Beijing.

Two letters that the Japanese naval officer who led the attack on Pearl Harbor wrote shortly after the incident will be made public for the first time.

A resident heard a noise outside and found a bear in the yard.S/ Resident/ Why won’t it move?The resident said the bear ...

Surveys indicate his ruling coalition could lose its Upper House majority in elections this weekend. Read more at ...

The office surveyed the status of flowering beech trees at 51 sites in the prefecture between April and June, classifying them into four levels. Of those sites, 36 sites, or 70%, did not bear any ...

A hunter believed to have been attacked by a bear was reported missing in Hakodate, Hokkaido, on Tuesday, according to the ...

That evening came to mind recently as I read a New Yorker article by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert, which ...

Japan's unpopular ruling coalition faces tough upper house elections this weekend, opinion polls suggested, potentially ending Shigeru Ishiba's premiership after less than a year. It "would likely ...

Japan's Environment Ministry has announced that Lake Inawashiro in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, has been newly ...

The Environment Ministry announced Tuesday that Lake Inawashiro in Fukushima Prefecture has been newly designated as an internationally important wetland under the Ramsar Convention.

A SHORT drive from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, novice farmer Takuya Haraguchi tends to his kiwi saplings under the ...