KYOTO — The character “kin,” meaning "gold" or "money," was selected as the kanji of the year, reflecting the strong showing ...

The retrial of a man who served a seven-year sentence for the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl in central Japan is expected t ...

Mainly wooden debris from dismantled buildings was loaded on a ship at Nanao City on Tuesday. It is the prefecture's fourth ...

Global warming led in part to the torrential downpour on the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture in September that killed ...

Police in Kimitsu City, Chiba Prefecture, have arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicion of killing his 78-year-old father who had been living with him since his home in Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture ...

Staff members and students at a standup paddleboarding (SUP) school in this central Japan town recently dressed up in Santa Claus ...

A fireworks display was held on Friday in Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture, to cheer up the victims of the Noto Peninsula ...

Winter yellowtail are displayed at a wholesale market ahead of the season's first auction in Kanazawa in the central Japan ...

The "baby hatch" door at the city hospital in southwestern Japan that Koichi Miyatsu was placed in the care of was etched in ...

JUST AFTER THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, acclaimed Taiwanese chef Andre Chiang visited Kanazawa with two friends for the first time.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.3 jolted Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture on Wednesday, the country's weather ...

SoftBank deploys tether drone system to restore telecommunications in Ishikawa Prefecture after flooding, fo rapid recovery.