A former employee of MUFG Bank was arrested Tuesday over the alleged theft of valuables from customers' safe deposit boxes, ...

A Thai woman who was detained at a police station in Ibaraki Prefecture died on the morning of Jan. 12, the police announced ...

Some 4,600 new adults dressed in flashy kimonos and other attire attended a coming-of-age ceremony here on Jan. 12, one day ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 struck southwestern Japan on Monday, with no immediate reports of injury or damage, and ...

There is one lone statue in the park that has nothing to do with the battle. It is described as "the ghost of Takeda Shingen, ...

Rie Tajiri, owner of Tajiri Thin Section Lab in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, carefully grinds down a glass slide-mounted ...

The city government of Kyoto said Tuesday it will raise its lodging tax for people staying at hotels and other accommodations ...

As Japan marks five years on Wednesday since its first confirmed case of COVID-19, government data show that over 70 million ...

Transportation systems in southwest Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture continue to experience disruptions on Jan. 14, a day after a ...

Social media has become informational infrastructure used by many people today. But at the same time, inaccurate information ...

Tokyo stocks fell for a fourth straight day Tuesday after briefly sending the Nikkei down over 2 percent, as concerns over ...

Yokozuna Terunofuji outlasted fellow Mongolian-born grappler Kirishima to stay a win back of the lead on Tuesday, the third ...