With efforts to find a driver who fell in expected to take about three months, there is no concrete timeline in place on when ...

A forest fire in northeastern Japan has scorched the largest area of land in more than 30 years, the central government said ...

Japanese authorities have asked hundreds of residents near Tokyo to evacuate as a sinkhole at an intersection grew to more than 40 meters wide, hampering rescuers racing to reach an elderly truck ...

A labor union of nurses and other staff at medical institutions under Japan's National Hospital Organization staged a ...

Reports of suspicious phone calls and home visits by scammers posing as government officials have climbed since the sinkhole ...

Saitama Prefecture lifted an evacuation order on February 19 it had in place for 47 residents near a massive sinkhole ...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has decided to release government rice reserves as a measure against ...

SAITAMA—Parents and children of Chinese heritage are an increasingly common sight at entrance exam venues for competitive ...

A Kurdish residents' association in Japan has filed a damages suit against a man for defaming them through anti-Kurdish ...

A truck cab that fell into a widening sinkhole in Yashio, Japan, late last month has been found. Officials believe the body ...

A prominent Japanese hibakusha atomic bomb survivor expressed regret Sunday over the Japanese government's decision not to ...

This move follows a road collapse incident in Saitama Prefecture, last month, believed to have been caused by a broken sewage ...