NARA--A festival that involves setting fire to a grassy mountain slope was held at Mount Wakakusayama here to herald the ...

NAGANO--Prefectural police here say the perpetrator of an apparent random fatal stabbing attack may have spent an hour ...

BEIJING--China's veteran foreign minister has issued a veiled warning to America's new secretary of state: Behave yourself.

SAITAMA--City education authorities here reinstated a sixth-grade girl who was expelled last September after her family lost ...

Hundreds of items used by “hidden” Christians in Nagasaki Prefecture to practice their religion when doing so meant certain ...

The upcoming special exhibition of the renowned Yamanbagiri Kunihiro sword at a public museum here has drawn a killer ...

SEOUL--North Korea said Sunday it tested a cruise missile system, its third known weapons display this year, and vowed “the ...

A record number of public school educators took leave due to mental disorders in fiscal 2023, the third straight year of ...

Toru Ota, a former chief of programming at Fuji Television Network Inc., said he continued hiring Masahiro Nakai despite ...

Ryomen Sukuna, a legendary figure with two heads and four arms, was given a more normal human appearance in a globally ...

HIROSHIMA–Hiroshima Governor Hidehiko Yuzaki has invited new U.S. President Donald Trump to visit the prefectural capital in ...

More than a month has already passed since the collapse of the Assad regime, which ruled Syria with an iron grip for five ...