A 15-year-old boy who was arrested May 12 on suspicion of murder in this eastern Japan city has told police that if he ...

A bag containing an inflammable signal flame tube fell from a U.S. military helicopter over the Motobu peninsula in northern ...

Children in Japan continue to suffer poor mental health, with the country ranking 32nd among 43 developed and emerging ...

TOKYO -- Major Japanese retailer Aeon Co. announced May 13 it will release a new 100% California-grown rice labeled "Karoyaka ...

A Japanese lawmaker's aide lured a female reporter by suggesting he would provide her with information, then sexually ...

A 38-year-old former public kindergarten employee was arrested on suspicion of secretly filming the naked bodies of ...

A "submerged forest," which appears only during spring, is now at its best in Lake Shirakawa in the town of Iide, Yamagata ...

A Japanese court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit calling on the central government to pay 16.5 million yen ($112,000) in ...

A body found inside a massive sinkhole that opened at an intersection near Tokyo three months ago has been confirmed as that ...

Tokyo stocks fell Wednesday as export-oriented auto issues were sold on a firmer yen and sluggish earnings outlooks due to ...

Japanese technology and entertainment company Sony logged an 18% rise in profit for the fiscal year through March on healthy ...

TOKYO -- The chairperson of the Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives (JA-Zenchu) said he thinks "current rice prices in ...