Early voting for the House of Councillors election began nationwide Friday. Election administration commissions are ...

The Yomiuri ShimbunPrime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters about a series of earthquakes around the Tokara Islands ...

Intricate costumes, bold makeup, stunning sets — the distinct characteristics of Japanese kabuki theater have become ...

The English translation of “The Night of Baba Yaga” by Akira Otani has won the Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation, the U.K.-based Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) announced Thursday night.

The preservation society of Funehoko, one of the floats of the Gion Festival, held a Shinmen Aratame ritual to confirm the ...

At least 60 earthquakes measuring 1 or stronger on the Japanese seismic intensity scale have hit areas around the Tokara ...

Manga artist Shirow Masamune’s “The Ghost in the Shell” is said to have predicted the information society that we live in ...

Japan’s Nikkei share average inched higher on Friday, as chip-related stocks tracked a strong overnight performance on Wall ...

Every yacht in this summer’s Ocean Race Europe will double as a floating laboratory, gathering vital ocean data as crews ...

Aline of evidence is providing further corroboration of the antiquity of fossilized footprints discovered at White Sands ...

The rainy season appears to have ended in the Tokai region, it was announced Friday. According to the Japan Meteorological ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said on June 25, capturing rare direct images ...