Technical flaws, ballooning costs and unconfirmed effectiveness have plagued the “ace card” in preventing groundwater from ...

SEOUL--The announcement by K-pop mega band BTS that members would serve mandatory military service in South Korea has removed ...

Education officials are puzzled and alarmed by an academic survey released on July 31 that shows younger students' academic ...

Recent rulings by district courts in Osaka, Kumamoto, and now Niigata, underscored the grim reality that many victims of Minamata disease still, for whatever reason, fall outside the parameters of ...

Passengers on the Kominato Railway, which operates a train line in the scenic Boso Peninsula, can really get the up-close ...

May, the sidewalk outside Oi Racecourse, in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward near Tokyo Bay, was filled with foreign visitors walking ...

Japan has experienced multiple “supereruptions” throughout its history, and one volcanologist is not sitting around idly ...

The United States on Monday showcased its Typhon intermediate-range missile system in Japan for the first time, underscoring ...

Rescuers on boats in China’s flood-hit Guangdong province raced to evacuate trapped residents, carrying some elderly people ...

NAHA--A U.S. military helicopter flying over northern Okinawa Prefecture accidentally dropped a bag containing a flammable ...

Tokyo and the surrounding areas saw more people moving in than leaving in 2023, highlighting the growing demographic ...

A magnitude-6.1 earthquake rattled northeastern Japan early Sunday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the latest in a series of major temblors hitting the region. No tsunami warning was ...