Amid frequent bear sightings in Iwate Prefecture, a smartphone app for reporting and sharing bear sightings has been developed and is gaining popularity in Hachimantai, Iwate Prefecture. Since the ...

Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor Hiroshi Nishioka, 93, read out the “Pledge for Peace” at the peace memorial ceremony as a ...

Takuya Onishi and three other astronauts from the United States and Russia departed the International Space Station at 7:15 a ...

Survivors and the families of the diseased paid tribute to the victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki during the Nagasaki ...

About 10,000 fireworks lit up the summer night sky during the Lake Biwa Great Fireworks Festival at Otsu Port in the city of ...

SWEIDA, Syria – Charred bodies sat in an awful heap on a city sidewalk. Blood mixed with dirt in a traffic circle where ...

The Hiwasa Sea Turtle Museum has finished installing a new pool big enough for raising sea turtles with a focus on the ...

The cats of Himeshima Island outnumber the island’s 140 human residents, and the about 150 animals recently were neutered as ...

The wife of a former Hyogo prefectural assembly member who died in January has filed a criminal complaint against NHK Party ...

A 55-year-old man died Friday after descending from Mt. Fuji’s summit, the season’s second fatality to occur on the Yamanashi ...

Differences in understanding between Japan and the United States over the application of special provisions for new ...

TAIJI, Wakayama — Visitors can swim along with dolphins at Hatajiri Bay in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture. The two Risso’s ...