Wearing menacing masks and straw coats, a father-son team kept a tradition alive here by making the rounds and terrifying ...

Most major department stores gave workers a rare day or two off at the start of the year, and they likely welcomed the extra ...

The Agency for Cultural Affairs is soliciting public comments about its plans to change romanization rules of the Japanese ...

The estimated number of New Year’s cards delivered on Jan. 1 plunged 34 percent from a year ago--the steepest decline in more ...

Warmer ocean temperatures are blamed for a major bleaching event this summer that killed 61.2 percent of corals off Amami-Oshima island.

Enclosed by mesh fences and walls sits a lone rice paddy stretching out across 1,100 square meters in Tsukuba, Ibaraki ...

A plane with malfunctioning landing gear veered off the runway, hit a fence and caught fire Sunday at an airport in southern ...

Emperor Naruhito expressed his wishes for the people’s well-being and the nation’s development at an annual New Year ...

A 62-year-old retiree from Suita, Osaka Prefecture, found a couple of surprises on his journey to express gratitude for the ...

Surrounded by disaster debris and with tears welling in his eyes, Keisuke Oma offered a 30-second silent prayer here on Jan.

Nagi earned the tag “miracle town” because its birthrate was more than twice the national average a few years ago.

A new report has shed light on the deadly collision between a Japan Airlines passenger plane and a Japan Coast Guard aircraft ...