Four workers who were doing drainage and other work on a sewer system apparently fell into a manhole in Gyoda, Saitama ...

Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, recorded 40.1 C on Saturday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, marking four ...

The record-breaking heat and droughts this summer have raised concerns about the impact on crops, and high temperatures and ...

A 75-year-old man died Friday while climbing Mt. Fuji on a tour, the season’s first fatality to occur on the Yamanashi ...

A female pantropical spotted dolphin kept in captivity was found dead at the Taiji Whale Museum in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture ...

A sea lion named Hama can imitate human movements, according to a study led by an official at the Kinosaki Marine World ...

A suspect in the Thursday attack of a Japanese woman and her child in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will not deliver a prime ministerial statement on Aug. 15, the 80th anniversary of the end of ...

Kimiya Yui and three other crew members are bound for the International Space Station after lifting off from NASA’s Kennedy ...

Shikoku Railway Co. (JR Shikoku) has started to offer a boxed meal, or ekiben, in a case modeled after one of the famous ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy on Friday visited a food distribution site in the Gaza Strip operated by an ...

The government and related academic organizations have launched smartphone apps that provide alerts when intense heat ...