The Japanese archipelago was covered by a Pacific high-pressure system on June 17, resulting in intense heat across a wide ...

Israel has continued to attack Tehran and other parts of Iran daily, killing senior officers of Iran's elite Islamic ...

Japan Post Co. said Tuesday it will accept the government's decision to revoke its license to operate thousands of freight ...

The rule allowing fixed-term academic employees to switch to indefinite employment after 10 years is a serious factor in ...

A 31-year-old man in the eastern Japan city of Saitama near Tokyo, who had been arrested on suspicion of theft, was served ...

Six of the Group of Seven leaders are trying on the final day of their Tuesday to show the wealthy nations' club still has ...

Nearly 80% of researchers in the field of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) who have legally changed ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and his South Korean counterpart Lee Jae Myung will meet Tuesday on the fringes of the ...

Tokyo stocks climbed Tuesday, with the Nikkei index ending at a four-month high, on hopes tensions in the Middle East will ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and the Ministry of the Environment have issued a "heatstroke alert" for Chiba, Ibaraki ...

Ippei Mizuhara, a former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, is in U.S. federal prison, prison ...

The Bank of Japan decided Tuesday to further reduce its monthly government bond purchases beyond April next year, but at a ...