One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia’s Far East early Wednesday, causing tsunami waves to wash ashore ...

The Yomiuri Online releases “easy Japanese” news about the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo on its website to help foreign residents ...

Among the close-range hibakusha atomic bomb survivors who were within 500 meters of the hypocenter of the atomic bomb in ...

The Foreign Ministry has announced that it will establish new divisions to back up its efforts related to the economy, which is becoming increasingly important to diplomacy and security.

If funds that should be used to compensate victims of investment scams and other crimes are being illicitly withdrawn from frozen bank accounts, this cannot be overlooked. Measures to prevent the ...

As many as 107 herons found dead in a park in central Toyama last month died because the city cut down trees where they were ...

The temperature in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, reached 41.2 C on Wednesday, the highest ever to be recorded in Japan.

A 1.3-meter-high tsunami was observed at Kuji Port in Kuji, Iwate Prefecture, at 1:52 p.m. on Wednesday, following a massive earthquake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday morning.

The tariff negotiations between Japan and the United States have been settled, and the focus will now shift to managing the progress of implementing the agreement. Japan needs to urgently realize ...

More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed during the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday. Israeli ...

The Liberal Democratic Party has decided to hold a general meeting of its members from both houses of the Diet to discuss the ...

The start of the large-scale retrieval of melted nuclear fuel from reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.’s ...