The share of divorces among couples who had lived together for at least 20 years rose to a record 24.2% in 2025, even as ...

A 1993 scientific paper by researchers at Ehime University in western Japan on the global spread of persistent organic ...

The decision to award this year's Nobel Peace Prize to veteran jurist Navi Pillay has exposed the vast gulf between Israel ...

JR Kyushu's train lines were fully restored Saturday for the first time in 74 days following a devastating July 28 earthqua ...

What did farm minister Kazuo Yana say at a May gathering of ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) members and others in ...

A renovated waterfront warehouse complex in Onomichi is now a popular place. Many cyclists go there. Many foreign tourists go ...

Japan's Environment Ministry on Friday confirmed sightings of an endangered crested ibis over 300 kilometers away from Sado ...

Japan has asked Russia to provide information following the death of a worker at an anti-plague institute in Irkutsk from ...

The issuance of stablecoins, digital currencies pegged to government-issued currencies such as the yen and the dollar, is ...

Two-time Olympic men's figure skating champion and professional skater Yuzuru Hanyu will perform in an ice show in Miyagi ...

In late June 1878, Isabella Bird and her party traveled upstream along the Ojika River toward what is now Lake Ikari in ...

JR Hokkaido's popular sightseeing Kushiro Shitsugen Norokko Train made its final run Saturday through a wetland in eastern H ...