Several people were reported missing after heavy rains and landslides in southern Japan flooded homes and swept people away ...

Tokyo, Aug. 15 (Jiji Press)--About 40 pct of young people in Japan do not know that Aug. 15 marks the country's surrender in ...

The mayor of Nagasaki has appealed for an end to the wars raging in the world on the 80th anniversary of the US atom bomb ...

Kawagoe, Saitama Pref., Aug. 15 (Jiji Press)--Hajime Eda, 82, a representative of bereaved relatives of World War II victims, ...

Respondents who think Ishiba should not resign following the ruling party's setback in last month's House of Councilors ...

TOKYO: A sudden suspension of the sole train to Japan's Expo 2025 stranded more than 30,000 visitors, with some forced to ...

The Japanese education ministry is considering launching a model project in fiscal 2026 to dispatch cram school lecturers and ...

Jose Takei, an 82-year-old man of Japanese descent in the Philippines, who became stateless after being left in the Southeast ...

Mayors from across the world concluded a general conference in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sunday by adopting ...

About 200 lanterns were lit up and released into a river at the foot of a ridge in eastern Japan on Monday, where a passenger ...

Maurice Obstfeld expressed concern that policies, including high tariffs and tax laws, that expand the federal debt and ...

Tokyo: Sen Genshitsu, a would be kamikaze pilot who became a Japanese tea ceremony master preparing cups of matcha for world leaders and monarchs, ...