Education officials in two cities in Japan failed to respond appropriately to incidents of sexual violence among students, ...

A 13-month-old boy died at a hospital after choking on his lunch at a licensed day care center in this city's Kita Ward on ...

By Bill Emmott, independent writer, lecturer and international affairs consultant ...

More than a dozen indoor shoes were stolen from a child care facility here in early November, and security cameras installed ...

A sample of fuel debris was recently retrieved for the first time from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station's No. 2 ...

Five foreign-capitalized companies are conducting surveys or exploratory drilling to develop gold mines in at least 42 ...

Every autumn, dead mantises can be seen lying on the asphalt of roads. A type of parasitic worm may be leading the creatures ...

A freight train derailed in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Saturday, disrupting some passenger and commercial ...

The 82-year-old son of a Japanese migrant to the Philippines, who had lived his entire life there as a stateless person, ...

The government will designate Japan's first laboratory to handle deadly pathogens like the Ebola virus for research as soon ...

LIMA (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday he and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to foster ...

The Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament went from two unbeaten leaders to four with one loss on the seventh day, Saturday, when ...