KOFU—A court here ordered the Kofu municipal government to pay about 58 million yen ($382,430) to the parents of an ...

KANAZAWA—A man who served a seven-year prison sentence over the brutal murder of a schoolgirl was granted a retrial after a ...

Shohei Ohtani’s 50th home run ball has sold at auction for nearly $4.4 million, a record high price not just for a baseball, ...

MATSUE—A local senior official of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party here has stirred controversy by expressing his ...

About 468.4 billion yen ($ 3.1 billion), or approximately 30 percent, of special government loans extended to households that ...

In a rare crackdown on an artist’s live street performance, police referred a case to prosecutors on a female idol group’s ...

With International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach’s term expiring in June next year, seven candidates are competing ...

Along with delivering packages and parcels, postal vans here are now transporting another important cargo: elderly passengers ...

Visitors from around Japan and overseas continue to flow into the municipal Muroran Aquarium here for a look at Satsuki, a ...

MATSUYAMA--To attract pop culture fans from home and abroad, the city government has opened a website to introduce the ...

To promote J-pop on the global stage, five major organizations from Japan's music industry announced the creation of Music ...

このすぐそばの石山地区の豊平川河畔林で13年夏、ヒグマが目撃されたのを皮切りに、南区の住宅地近くで目撃が相次いだ。最終的に1歳のヒグマ1頭が駆除されると、批判の声が多く寄せられたという。