A magnitude 4.8 earthquake hit Ishikawa Prefecture at 5:31 p.m. on Thursday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

The government and investors have expressed their high hopes for the Yomiuri Stock Index (Yomiuri 333), saying it will expand ...

Oita District Court in southwestern Japan on Thursday sentenced a 23-year-old man to eight years in prison for driving a car ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako visited the Toshimagaoka cemetery in Tokyo’s Bunkyo Ward on Wednesday to pay ...

Safety advocates are suing the federal workplace safety regulator in an attempt to reveal more details about three fatalities ...

Vienna will splash the cash on lighting up its famed Christmas markets to bring festive cheer to struggling retailers.

Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur — an ancient flying reptile — with a wing span ...

KANAZAWA — Complex, a music unit composed of guitarist Tomoyasu Hotei and singer Koji Kikkawa, donated about ¥1 billion to ...

Kang Gyuri knew watching South Korean TV dramas could be harshly punished, but the programs sustained her amid the oppressive ...

A delegation from seven economic groups in the Kansai region, including the Kansai Economic Federation (Kankeiren), confirmed ...

The Japanese government has officially decided that it will seek to participate in the joint development of new-type frigates ...

ROME — Japan, the United States and the Philippines are scheduled to hold the first trilateral maritime consultations on ...