Japan's sex education has long been considered lagging behind other nations. Few elementary and junior high schools have ...

SAITAMA, Japan (Kyodo) -- One leukemia patient died and two others remain in critical condition after undergoing chemotherapy injections, a children's hospital near Tokyo said Wednesday. Saitama ...

Complaints directed at a Nara Prefectural Government division concerning abuse of its famous deer have surged, leaving employees stressed and ...

Japan will begin drawing down its oil reserves as early as next Monday to deal with a possible sharp rise in gasoline and other petro ...

A giant vertical pipe at a sewer construction site in Osaka was pushed upward Wednesday, protruding more than 10 meters above ...

Tokyo stocks extended gains Wednesday, with the Nikkei index topping the key 55,000 line as concerns over prolonged crude oil supply ...

Amid worsening conditions in the Middle East, it was revealed March 11 that multiple South Korean evacuees are aboard a Japanese government-c ...

A section chief at the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) headquarters was reprimanded for regularly adopting an angry attitude toward his ...

Japan on Wednesday marked 15 years since a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck the country's northeastern areas and triggered ...

Fifteen years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. That decade and a half has revealed the depth of the wounds left on ...

Figure skating icon Yuzuru Hanyu believes it is his mission to maintain the memory of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami dis ...

A white, weathered store stands quietly in a deserted area of Namie town in Fukushima Prefecture, an area evacuated after ...