The Sakurajima volcano in Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture erupted once again on 9. Footage sped-up in post shows plumes of ash ...

On Nov. 11, a Yasen-class nuclear-powered submarine passed through the Soya Strait, which separates Japan’s northernmost main ...

Robert Takata is unlike any of his predecessors. The 48-year-old is the first Japanese-Dominican to be appointed as the ...

Amami Oshima in Kagoshima Prefecture has officially declared the eradication of invasive mongooses, completing the removal of ...

KAGOSHIMA (TR) – Kanagawa Prefectural Police have arrested a male high school student over the alleged murder of a ...

Japan is battling the coldest wave of the season with record-breaking snowfall in the northern main island of Hokkaido. Traffic has been hit and airports closed. Weather agencies have said the extreme ...

Japan has successfully launched a rocket carrying another satellite to join the country's own version of a satellite ...

An 18-year-old high school student was arrested Saturday for allegedly stabbing to death a woman on a southwestern Japan ...

A 20-year-old man wanted on suspicion of breaking into a house in Karatsu City, Saga Prefecture, assaulting the woman who lives there and robbing her, has been arrested in Satsumasendai City, ...

Kagoshima, Feb. 2 (Jiji Press)--Police in Kagoshima Prefecture have arrested an 18-year-old male high school student for allegedly murdering a 55-year-old nursery teacher on Tokunoshima Island in ...

Japan on Sunday successfully launched a flagship H3 rocket and put into orbit a quasi-zenith satellite, aiming to improve the ...

Snow has hit wide areas of Japan since late Monday, February 3, as the “strongest cold front this season” arrived in the ...