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

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 ...

With the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant’s No. 6 reactor resuming commercial operations on Thursday, it raised the ...

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

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

More than three weeks have passed since a child went missing. Shockingly, police have arrested his stepfather, who reported the boy missing. Why was this child’s life lost? Could this incident have ...

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.

According to several acquaintances, stepfather graduated from a high school in Kyoto City and went on to work at an electrical equipment company in Kyoto Prefecture, where he was described as a ...

The father of an 11-year-old boy whose body was found in a forest in Nantan, Kyoto Prefecture, has confessed to strangling the boy to death, according to police sources.

One month has passed since the government began releasing oil reserves in response to the crisis in Iran, but there are still serious concerns over supply. The government needs to take immediate ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has announced that the government will begin releasing 50 million medical gloves from its ...

Courtesy of Honda Motor Co. Honda Motor Co.’s Insight. The Yomiuri Shimbun. 15:55 JST, April 17, 2026. Honda Motor Co. on Friday released a new Insight electric sport utility ve ...