The present-day grand sumo tournament originated from “kanjin zumo,” — events held to raise funds for temples or shrines ...

More than 800 structures are threatened by a massive wildfire in central California that left at least three people injured ...

Ongoing talks to open the Japanese market to Brazilian beef are focusing on supplies from three small Brazilian exporting ...

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand underground gas networks in Peru’s capital unearthed two pre-Incan tombs on ...

Japan. Under a pair of mushroom clouds created by the enormous energy released by nuclear fission, the cities of Hiroshima ...

The ancient ocean was full of squids, whose population exceeded that of fish or ammonites, a Japanese research team has found through a new method using digital technology.

Astronaut Takuya Onishi, who will leave the International Space Station (ISS) this week, gave encouragement to his newly ...

A scorching 41.6 C was recorded in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, at 2:20 p.m. Tuesday, shattering the all-time high for Japan.

A pleasant thump-thump sound echoed throughout the Tsumugi no Yakata museum in Yuki, Ibaraki Prefecture, each time the weft ...

Persistent inflation was reflected in Japan’s average minimum wage, which is expected to surpass the ¥1,100 threshold for the ...

Hitachi, Ltd. is considering selling its domestic major household appliance business, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Monday.

Oyster farmers along Japan’s coast damaged by the tsunami triggered by the earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula have ...