Various unique kinds of shochu, reflecting the commitment of their distilleries, have been attracting attention in recent ...

The police intend as early as Tuesday to arrest a former MUFG Bank female employee on suspicion of stealing gold bars worth ...

An earthquake with an intensity of lower 5 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7 struck Miyazaki Prefecture at about 9:19 p.m.

A former chancellor of Tokyo Women’s Medical University arranged to receive as a kickback two-thirds of the money that an ...

Hiroshi Moriyama, the secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, on Tuesday called for China to lift its import ban ...

The area that is now Iruma, Saitama Prefecture, was home to a prosperous silk-reeling industry from the final years of the ...

The Tottori prefectural government said on Tuesday it will participate in a demonstration in which the digital technology ...

Leading Hiroshima-based sauce maker Otafuku Sauce Co. has opened a base in Paris amid an increase in popularity of Japanese ...

While Naomi Osaka is busy competing — and winning — at the Australian Open, she needed to send someone to retrieve her 1 ...

A 24-year-old unemployed man in Osaka was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of attempted murder, after throwing a kitchen knife ...

Although Syria has been freed from a reign of terror that lasted half a century, it will not be easy to overcome the social ...

A project is saving salvageable joinery and building material of houses set for demolition after being damaged by the Noto ...