Colorful koinobori carp streamers gracefully fluttered over the sea at Nou Beach in Itoigawa, Niigata Prefecture, delighting ...

Evacuation orders that followed the earthquake off the Sanriku coast were all lifted by Tuesday morning. The evacuation ...

Immediately after the earthquake that hit the Tohoku region on Monday afternoon, there were disruptions in Tokyo, including elevators coming to an emergency stop.

In an area in Tokyo frequented by scores of kimono-clad walkers, an old dorayaki pancake shop is nestled in a narrow alley.

A police officer was bitten by a bear on his face and right arm in a forest in Shiwa, Iwate Prefecture, at around 9:50 a.m. on Tuesday.

A gunman shot dead a Canadian woman as he opened fire at Mexico’s Teotihuacan pyramids on Monday before killing himself, ...

Criticism against the U.S. attack on Iran is mounting across Europe, and even right-wing elements that had maintained good relations with U.S. President Donald Trump have begun to distance themselves.

The government is establishing a system to quickly dispatch Disaster Welfare Assistance Teams, or DWATs, to disaster-hit ...

Max Muncy went 4 for 4 with two homers and scored four times as the Los Angeles Dodgers hit five longballs to back Justin Wrobleski in a 12-3 victory Monday night over the Colorado Rockies.

The government on Tuesday effectively lifted its ban on the export of weapons with lethal or destructive capabilities by scrapping the “five category” rule that had long restricted such transfers.

Two Chinese Navy vessels — a destroyer and a frigate — passed between Amami Oshima Island and Yokoatejima Island, both in Kagoshima Prefecture, on Sunday, moving from the East China Sea into the ...

Eight paintings by children from around the world have received the Minister of Foreign Affairs’ Award at the 56th International Children’s Art Exhibition. Judges praised the works for such elements ...