Japan's weather agency on Friday warned that a typhoon could approach the country from the Pacific and make landfall the ...

IWAKI, Fukushima -- A unique disaster prevention workshop in this northeastern Japan city used a "zombie attack" on a town as ...

Japanese authorities said Saturday they had received reports of 10 people sustaining minor injuries due to the magnitude-5.6 ...

Epicenter: Yamanashi Prefecture. N 35.6 , E 139.0 Preliminary magnitude: 5.6 Note: No tsunami warning issued. Note: An ...

The main building of the Aichi Prefectural Government is changing almost all of its old squat toilets to Western-style ...

A rare double earthquake ravaged Venezuela on Wednesday, killing at least 920 and injuring another 3,360, authorities said.

Kazuma Okamoto blasted a home run for the second straight game, taking his tally to 19 for the Toronto Blue Jays in Friday's ...

A virtual AI police chief has been introduced in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, following a rise in imposter scams, with ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi agreed Friday with International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi to ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will make a three-day trip to India next week to meet with her counterpart Narendra ...

Japan's ruling party led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is increasingly likely to miss its envisioned end-of-June deadline ...

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