Chikuwan, a mascot character from the Hinagu district of Yatsushiro City, Kumamoto Prefecture, has been certified as the city ...

A bear was captured in a box trap on Monday morning after attacking an employee at a supermarket in Akita and remaining there ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who is also the president of the Liberal Democratic Party, said Monday that the LDP did not ...

Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko will depart for Turkey on Tuesday on a goodwill visit to mark 100 years of ...

Hotel Gajoen Tokyo, in Tokyo’s Meguro Ward, is home to a 99-step staircase known as the Hyakudan Kaidan, or the Hundred ...

Patients waiting to receive organs from brain-dead donors will be allowed to register multiple transplant facilities where ...

A resident of Kitakata, Fukushima Prefecture, reported to police that a bear had entered an abandoned house nearby at about 9 ...

Nihonzaru, or Japanese macaques, enjoy a hot water bath at a botanical garden in Hakodate, Hokkaido, on Sunday.

Recently, I have occasionally heard about a single person building a new house. Each person’s situation varies, such as ...

Taiwan’s president visited a U.S. State Department-funded think tank and educational institution Sunday on the second day of ...

The Sapporo White Illumination, a winter illumination event, is being held at five locations in central Sapporo.

Japan’s Nikkei share average reversed course to trade marginally higher on Monday, as gains in financial stocks outweighed ...