Researchers in Japan are using Pair Go, a version of the ancient board game played in teams, to explore how humans and ...

I first thought about Japan as a place to visit in 2020. The pandemic had just started, and I suddenly had a lot more time on ...

Faced with a worsening shortage of bus drivers, a Hiroshima transport company has turned to Indonesia for help, hiring two ...

Omitama city started to use six tablets this month. The tablets have a translation app. People can use them at service ...

A project is underway to reconstruct stone markers donated late in life by 19th-century Japanese explorer Matsuura Takeshiro ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has reshuffled her Cabinet and unveiled a new leadership lineup for the ruling Liberal ...

A junior high school student in Iwate Prefecture was arrested after allegedly spraying bear repellent at students after the ...

The cultivation of autumn watermelons is spreading in the city of Tomisato, Chiba Prefecture, a major watermelon-producing ...

An Asian black bear was captured on a wildlife observation camera walking on Mount Takao in the western Tokyo city of ...

Japan's farm ministry on Friday began procedures to buy back 210,000 tons of rice to replenish government reserves drawn down ...

The Nagano Prefectural Police force has selected the first successful applicant under a new recruitment program for people ...

Russians on Friday began three days of voting in the country's first wartime parliamentary election, which features virtually ...