A three-day evacuation exercise involving nearly 5,000 residents began on Feb. 14 close to a nuclear power plant here.

Japan’s space agency announced plans for seven or more lift-offs annually of its flagship H3 rocket from the Kagoshima ...

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

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

Miyazaki Ramen is a lighter variation of Hakata-style tonkotsu ramen in Prefecture, features a mild yet flavorful pork bone ...

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 ...

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

Japan on Sunday launched the Michibiki navigation satellite aboard the H3 Rocket No 5 from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture The ...

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

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

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