The prosecution described the crime as "exploiting women for profit" and sought a sentence of two years and six months in ...

The sun doesn't come out much during the winter in Fukui, Ishikawa and Toyama prefectures, the trio making up the Hokuriku ...

The Japan Volleyball Association's search for its women's national team head coach has identified Ferhat Akbas, as the top ...

The Japanese government started a process Friday to compensate victims of forced sterilization surgery under a now-defunct ...

A now 88-year-old man who narrowly survived the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated this west Japan city still ...

Nintendo Co. said Thursday it will release the successor to its Switch game console, which has become one of its best-selling ...

Documents containing the personal information of an individual related to a traffic accident went missing after the famous ...

Hyogo Prefectural Police arrested Hidekazu Yanai, a company executive in Kobe's Chuo Ward, on suspicion of violating the ...

The chance of a megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years has increased to approximately 80 percent, ...

Mongolians and others living in Japan visit the temple as a place of spiritual comfort, and the Mongolia-born former sumo ...

An illumination event at a UNESCO World Heritage-listed settlement in this central Japan village began on Jan. 13, lighting ...

A former MUFG Bank employee who was arrested for allegedly stealing gold bars from customer safe deposit boxes is believed to ...