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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

In Japan, rice prices became lower for the first time in 18 weeks. This happened because the government started selling rice ...

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