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

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

About 1,600 firefighters from 12 prefectures in eastern Japan were battling a forest fire here on the afternoon of Feb. 28.

However, under the revised law, innocent children who had no choice about coming to Japan and have since grown up in the ...

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

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

A five-year-old boy was found dead in a parked car in Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecture, along with his unconscious older brother and father in what police believe was a murder-suicide. According to ...

The infrastructure ministry said Friday that emergency inspections on sewage pipes, which were conducted in the wake of last month's road cave-in in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, have found ...

On Tuesday, part of a road intersection in Saitama prefecture, about 18 miles north of Japan’s capital, opened up, swallowing a three-ton truck and its driver, a 74-year-old man, prompting a ...

With President Donald Trump's return to power, Japan is grappling with what it will mean for America's Pacific ally.

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 ...