The number of Japanese babies born last year was about 700,000. Record lows are being set year after year, making it hard to ...

The Yamato Museum, municipal maritime history museum located in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, is set to reopen on Thursday following extensive renovations.

Poet Shuntaro Tanikawa’s home has been recreated with computer graphics for an online museum. The special exhibition featuring Tanikawa, a native of Suginami Ward, is being hosted by the Suginami Web ...

Someiyoshino cherry blossoms have reached full bloom at Hirosaki Park in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, a well-known cherry ...

The Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile, discovered in the 1970s, revolutionized the thinking about when humans entered the Americas, with scientists calculating decades ago that this former ...

The Tokyo District Court on Thursday handed the head of a website operator a suspended prison sentence for violating the ...

A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth’s primordial seas millions of years earlier than previously known, with an array of forms including ...

Japan’s Nikkei share average retreated on Friday from a record high reached the day before, as investors sold technology ...

Fifteen years have passed since the nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, which was caused by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. On April 6, I visited ...

Former Japan soccer star Shunsuke Nakamura, 47, will join the coaching staff for Japan’s World Cup team, the Japan Football Association announced Thursday.

The name of the train that will succeed the iconic Doctor Yellow shinkansen inspection model has been announced by its operator.

About five hectares of an area within a U.S. army camp in central Okinawa Prefecture will be returned to Japan after both sides on Thursday agreed to the move.