Coordinators for international relations from around the world are responsible for international exchange activities across ...

The scenes of otters playing in slidelike water channels once disappeared at Ichikawa City Zoo in Chiba Prefecture, but can ...

Okunoshima has become famous globally as Japan's Instagrammable "Rabbit Island," but little is known about its dark history ...

Four women have been arrested for allegedly soliciting customers for prostitution in the Kabukicho entertainment district in ...

The International Crime Division of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) on July 24 referred a 39-year-old woman to ...

A man in his 30s was fatally stabbed at a sushi restaurant in Tokyo's busy Ikebukuro area on Friday, police said.

The PR posters for this year's Nagaoka Fireworks Festival in Niigata Prefecture are sparking conversation for not featuring firewo ...

As Japan continues to see sweltering summer heat across the country, juvenile Japanese macaques in southwest Japan's Oita ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's resignation has become unavoidable. The ruling coalition has now suffered crushing defeats in ...

A 4-year-old female polar bear named "Ho-chan" received a big ice block with her favorite apples inside on July 19 at Tennoji ...

The right-wing populist party Sanseito, which made significant gains in the recent House of Councillors election, removed a ...

A man named Jolan Bollen, 32, rode his bicycle from Hasselt, Belgium to Itami, Hyogo Prefecture in Japan. These two cities ...