The Yamagata Meteorological Office said Tuesday that the first snowfall of the season in Yamagata Prefecture was observed at ...

Princess Aiko, currently on an official visit to Laos, paid a courtesy call to Laotian President Thongloun Sisoulith at the ...

Melting glaciers and shrinking snow cover could have a devastating impact on Alpine skiing and snowboarding, but athletes can ...

Maki Yamada brought Japan its first gold medal in the Tokyo Deaflympics on Wednesday, winning the men’s 400 meters in 47.61 ...

A few weeks before the fall of her hometown to Sudan’s paramilitary group, Nadra Mohamed Ahmed, seven months pregnant at the ...

Amid rapidly deteriorating relations between Japan and China, ruling and opposition parties on Tuesday called for China to ...

Niigata Prefecture Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi has told relevant parties that he intends to approve the restart of Tokyo Electric ...

A fire broke out in the Saganoseki area of Oita City on Tuesday evening. The Oita prefectural government announced the ...

Is the aim of this system to prepare for situations in which the functions of the central government’s ministries and agencies and other entities are lost due to large-scale disasters? Or is the ...

A notice has been issued to educational facilities such as Japanese schools in China and universities sending Japanese ...

The expiration dates of existing health insurance certificates are approaching, but the usage rate of so-called My Number insurance cards that serve as a substitute for the certificates remains ...

The Yamagata prefectural government finalized its countermeasure package and approved ¥53 million in emergency bear ...