Crows previously emerged as a social problem in Tokyo due to their scavenging of food waste among other issues, but their ...

OMIHACHIMAN, Shiga -- "Those who dump trash in rice fields shouldn't eat rice." "It's like throwing garbage into your rice ...

Emails impersonating real company presidents and requesting QR codes to access chat groups on the free messaging app Line ...

The number of people taking shinkansen bullet trains and express trains in Japan during the 10-day year-end and New Year ...

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Japan's National Diet Building, which marks 90 years since its completion in 2026, will undergo large scale renovation work ...

The number of operational ski resorts in Japan in 2025 fell to a record low, 40 percent down from the peak in 1999, due to a ...

Nationwide protests in Iran sparked by the Islamic Republic's ailing economy are putting new pressure on its theoc ...

Heavy snow may fall across a wide swath of Japan over the three-day holiday weekend, the weather agency said Friday, warning ...

Japanese pitcher Hirokazu Sawamura announced his retirement on social media Friday following a 15-year professional baseball ...

Starting in academic 2027, the University of Tsukuba will require foreign students to pay higher tuition. The university ...

An avalanche of garbage and debris buried or trapped workers in low-slung buildings at a landfill in the Philippines, kill ...