Vertical solar panels, while now a rare sight on farmland in Japan, in this case a rice paddy, look set to transform the ...

I saw an interesting scene in “Little Women” (2022), a South Korean serial TV drama, showing a woman released from a ...

SAPPORO--Shinichiro Ando, the victim of a vicious bear attack a few years ago, says insufficient support measures have ...

OSAKA--Nayuta Sato has been playing the piano since he was 4 and always wanted to perform with his mother, who couldn’t play ...

MITO--Yasuko Yasuhara, once a top party hostess in this Ibaraki prefectural capital, made an inevitable career shift as she ...

OSAKA—The master pyrotechnicians behind the Omagari fireworks festival, Japan’s most prestigious fireworks competition, lit ...

After Japan’s first execution of a prisoner in almost three years, the European Union and other countries responded with a ...

Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the number of officially recognized survivors has fallen ...

Masanori Kin ran for a seat in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly on a policy of eliminating discrimination and promoting ...

A relentless series of earthquakes has shaken Akusekijima island here in the remote Tokara island chain, causing sleepless nights, emotional strain and growing fears of a larger quake to come.

Emperor Naruhito hopes that his visit to Mongolia to commemorate Japanese wartime detainees who died there under harsh ...

A drone-based tsunami detection is taking shape along this famed surfing coastline to ensure a speedy evacuation of beach-goers in an emergency.