HIMEJI, Hyogo — West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) has begun measures to eradicate weeds along rail tacks using fallen gingko ...

Another round of torrential rain and flash flooding came Saturday for parts of the South and Midwest already heavily waterlogged by days of severe storms that also spawned deadly tornadoes.

American journalist Ryan Anderson, 52, is searching for people who met and interacted with a German traveler who visited ...

A bust of a Japanese woman from 1,800 years ago, whose face was reconstructed from bones unearthed from a Tottori ruins site, ...

The University of Tokyo appointed one of its foreign professors as head of the new five-year “College of Design” program that ...

A crisis looms for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. In the House of Representatives election last October, the Liberal ...

IBARAKI, Osaka — The country’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge has opened in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture.

A ceremony was held on March 15 at Nemuro Station to mark the departure of the first JR Hanasaki Line train on the day when ...

Kansai Television Co. President Toru Ota left his post at the TV broadcaster on Friday in connection with the case of sexual ...

There has been a spate of cases in which children became involved in despicable crimes through online games that can be ...

A three-day test run rehearsal of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo started Friday at the venue on Yumeshima, an artificial island ...

A Russian ballistic missile strike Friday on a central Ukrainian city killed at least 14 people, including six children, ...