With the enactment of the revised Imperial House Law, the Imperial Household Agency will begin gathering information on male-line male descendants of former Imperial branches who can potentially be ...

This change to the Imperial system is outrageous and riddled with too many flaws. It could pose a risk of nullifying ties between the people and the Emperor as a symbol — a bond that has been nurtured ...

As you head south from Nada Station on the JR Kobe Line, you can spy a frog-shaped object that looks strikingly real on the rooftop of the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Chuo Ward, Kobe.

A 48-year-old Turkish man in police custody in Tokyo has died after complaining of stomach pain but being deemed not to need hospitalization, it was learned Friday.

Shipping restrictions are still in place on log-grown shiitake mushrooms cultivated in open fields in the Tohoku and Kanto regions due to the spread of radioactive substances following the accident at ...

The Yamaguchi prefectural police on Friday reprimanded a police officer for leaving his loaded handgun in a convenience store.

Executives of the Paris Aquarium experienced making traditional goldfish lanterns during a recent visit to a workshop in Yanai, Yamaguchi Prefecture, to see the folk craft that decorates the French ...

An elderly couple is feared trapped after a landslide triggered by heavy rain collapsed their two-story home in Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, Friday night.

Local governments and other entities in Iwate Prefecture are increasingly using cameras equipped with artificial intelligence to detect and track bears, a high-tech approach intended to reduce human ...

Capsule toys exclusive to the village of Kitayama, Wakayama Prefecture, are now on sale. The toys, a selection of five keychains, depict motifs such as the local specialty Jabara citrus, which is used ...

Ensuring the safety of buses used for out-of-town trips by junior high and high school clubs has become a major issue since a bus carrying members of a high school soft tennis club crashed this spring ...

A female Ukrainian student at Kyushu University is working hard for the future of her home country, interviewing people who fled to Japan to escape the Russian aggression, and reporting on the ...