The Yomiuri ShimbunA panel of academics comprising, from left, Eijiro Mizutani, Hidemi Suzuki, Yuya Shibuya and moderator ...

Government estimates warn that up to 199,000 people could die from a major tsunami following an earthquake along the Japan ...

The Federal Reserve will almost certainly reduce its key interest rate Wednesday, but the bigger question for financial ...

The Legislative Council, an advisory entity for the justice minister, proposed toughening punishments for acts of dangerous ...

A new mascot character for the Suica transit IC card will be unveiled around Nov. 18 of next year, East Japan Railway Co.

The powerful earthquake that struck late on Monday, with its epicenter off the east coast of Aomori Prefecture, occurred in ...

This year’s Nobel Prize winners from Japan, Shimon Sakaguchi and Susumu Kitagawa, both aged 74, will attend the award ...

Following the death of a pregnant woman who was struck by a car in May, the Aichi prefectural assembly is expected to pass an ...

Akita Senshu Museum of Art in the city of Akita is running a special exhibition called “Enjoying Art by Gazing” that focuses ...

The Japan NewsNoodles with pork chashu and wontons By Futoshi Mori / Japan News Senior Writer [posttime] JST, [postdate] I ...

Hokkaido Governor Naomichi Suzuki on Wednesday announced his approval for the restart of the No. 3 reactor at Hokkaido ...

Asahi Breweries Ltd., which suffered a cyberattack in September, saw its sales in November below 80% of last year’s sales for ...