Soil mounds at risk of collapse are still being created across the country. This year has seen a series of typhoons approaching Japan. Measures must be taken urgently so that residents’ safety is not ...

The trend of young people these days choosing not to study abroad is growing. The weak yen and the fact that job-hunting season is starting earlier are said to be contributing factors. The appeals of ...

Japan’s Nikkei share average fell on Tuesday as semiconductor-related heavyweights declined after a drop in South Korea’s ...

Plans for a new Defense Ministry bureau are being coordinated by the government and ruling parties. It will likely be ...

Yomiuri Shimbun file photo Ibaraki Prefectural Police headquarters The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] A 49-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of assault for allegedly sewing her ...

The English e-book edition of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s memoir will go on sale on Wednesday. “Shinzo Abe: A Memoir,” published by Chuokoron-Shinsha Inc., reflects on his long tenure in office ...

Artist Yoichi Hatakenaka, who was suffered from the earthquake and torrential rains that struck the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture in 2024, is holding an exhibition in Gifu City featuring works ...

Shizuoka Gov. Yasutomo Suzuki formally announced his intention on Tuesday to approve the start of construction on the Shizuoka section of the Linear Chuo Shinkansen maglev line where construction had ...

Three men, including a former director of a nonprofit organization, were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of brokering organ transplants in Cambodia and receiving payment in return.

The Senju district of Adachi Ward in Tokyo once flourished as a post town on the Nikko Kaido highway that linked Edo (now Tokyo) with Nikko in Tochigi Prefecture. Many old streetscapes in Senju still ...

A bowl that stings your heart.” That is the slogan of Menya Jyooubachi, located in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, a specialty shop for spicy ramen.

Sales of electric vehicles are on the rise in Japan, with the figure for the first half of 2026 reaching 59,337 units — 2.1 times the previous year’s first-half figure — and accounting for a ...