In the wake of an extensive forest fire in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, the government has set up an information liaison office ...

Fourteen staff of seven teams have voluntarily reported to the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization that they have ...

Two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife Betsy Arakawa have been found dead in their home in the U.S. state of ...

Seven & i Holdings Co., the operator of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, announced Thursday that the founding Ito family ...

Three junior and senior high school students have been arrested on suspicion of illegally logging into Rakuten Mobile’s ...

The construction of an anti-terrorism facility for the No. 7 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata ...

Mizuho Bank, Ltd. announced Thursday that its former employee stole ¥66 million from customers’ safe deposit boxes.

Hamas said Thursday it was ready to negotiate the the next phase of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, after a swap in which it ...

Firefighting efforts continued Thursday, a day after a forest fire broke out in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, and forced many ...

A wildfire in a forest in the Akasaki area of Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, continued to rage on Thursday, having burned an area ...

A wildfire that broke out on Tuesday in a forest area in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, has continued to spread, burning down an ...

North Korea has deployed additional troops to Russia, but the scale of the contingent was not immediately known, South Korean ...