The government and ruling coalition parties in Japan are considering using the surplus in national tax revenue for public ...

Amid calls that Self-Defense Force members be honored at Tokyo's Yasukuni Jinja shrine if they die in war, some have ...

A former student opened fire at a school in Austria's second-biggest city on Tuesday, killing nine people and wounding at ...

Yoshihiko Noda, head of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP), on June 9 began arranging to ...

The Tokyo High Court has overturned a lower court ruling that held former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings ...

Heavy rain is expected mainly in southwest Japan's Kyushu region and across western and eastern Japan through June 11.

At a game center in this eastern Japan city near Tokyo, children try to win prizes in a crane game. But here, the winnings ...

Looking at the leafy weeping willow standing on the banks of a serene river in Hiroshima, one would never guess it endured ...

Japan will set a goal of reducing a March estimate of up to 298,000 deaths from a potential megaquake occurring in the Nankai ...

TOKYO -- A cluster of genes that could open the way to "tailor-made" prevention methods against Alzheimer's based on a person ...