The number of foreign residents living in Japan is at a record high and continuing to rise. While foreign residents are seen ...

Thousands of people marched in Minneapolis on Saturday to protest the fatal shooting of a woman by a federal immigration officer there and the shooting of two people in Portland, Oregon. Minnesota ...

Myanmar resumed voting Sunday in the second round of its first general election in five years, expanding polling to additional townships, including some areas affected by the civil war between the ...

Heavy snow is expected to fall mainly on the Sea of Japan side of Honshu and Hokkaido from Sunday to Monday due to a strong winter pressure pattern.

A 69-year-old woman from Kobe, who lost her father in the Great Hanshin Earthquake, has been devoting herself for over a decade to reading picture books to children that feature people’s lives in ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s decision to consider dissolving the House of Representatives is based on her judgment that it is necessary to take a chance on a snap election to secure public trust at ...

TOYOOKA, Hyogo – Two white snow crabs were landed at fishing ports on the Sea of Japan off the coast of Hyogo Prefecture. Local aquarium Kinosaki Marine World in Toyooka has acquired the crustaceans ...

Editorial [posttime] JST, [postdate] Solar power generation is a pillar of renewable energy for the realization of a decarbonized society. With suitable generation sites for the energy source becoming ...

A 49-year-old man was arrested Saturday in Hidaka, Hokkaido, for allegedly hiding a woman’s body inside a wall of a bar he runs, police said.

A female Bornean orangutan from Indonesia has been newly introduced into a zoo in the town of Tobe, Ehime Prefecture. The zoo aims to have her breed with the male orangutan already in its care.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who also serves as the president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, began on Friday considering dissolving the House of Representatives at the start of the ordinary ...

Yamagata University will develop and launch its own ultra-small satellite in partnership with a Tokyo-based startup , the university announced Thursday.