Actor Fuju Kamio and Yurina Hirate, a former member of the idol girls band Keyakizaka46, have been married, the two announced ...

The annual Sounkyo Onsen Ice Fall Festival has started in Kamikawa, Hokkaido, with ice sculptures illuminated in rainbow ...

Korean Air announced Tuesday that it will increase direct flights between Niigata and Seoul from three flights per week to ...

A measles patient stayed in Sapporo and may have come into contact with an unspecified number of people, the Hokkaido and ...

A generation ago, the sight of an Olympic halfpipe podium drenched in red, white and blue was as common as fresh powder on ...

The result of Sunday’s House of Representatives election will boost political subsides to be granted to the Liberal ...

FUKUOKA　—　Students at a junior high school in Kitakyushu fell ill possibly because they ate pizza cooked in class that had ...

The captain of a chemical tanker, which was sailing off Kobe, reported to the Kobe Coast Guard Office at around 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday that it had collided with a fishing vessel.

Four Chinese coast guard ships entered Japan’s territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands in the southernmost prefecture of ...

Sparks illuminate the soot-covered studio of Japanese swordsmith Akihira Kawasaki as his apprentice hammers red-hot steel, ...

Yuma Kagiyama placed second in the men’s figure skating short program with 103.07 points at the Milan-Cortina Olympics on ...

Two Centrist Reform Alliance lawmakers announced on Wednesday their intention to run in the party’s election to choose a new leader.