A 108-year-old Japanese woman has been named the world’s oldest female barber by the Guinness World Records this week ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a ...

Shonan Bellmare continued their perfect start to the J-League first-division season Wednesday with a 2-1 victory over Urawa Reds thanks to goals from Sho Fukuda and Akito Suzuki. Manager Satoshi ...

Zeon Corporation and The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. announced that they have agreed to establish a bench facility to ...

Ski resorts are one after another being forced to shut down due to financial difficulties caused by declining visitor numbers ...

Municipal governments in Shimane and Hiroshima prefectures are teaming up to ask the national government for solutions after ...

(AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File) Wind turbines are seen in Rokkasho village, Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan on Nov. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) Smoke billows from an oil refinery in Kawasaki, ...

HIRAO, Yamaguchi — A new brand of olive oil has been developed by residents of Hirao, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Produced from locally grown olives, the product is part of an effort to create a new local ...

The facility will be installed at Zeon’s Tokuyama Plant (Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture) and is scheduled to begin operating in 2026. It will enable the production of a certain amount of butadiene ...

Kaohsiung Deputy Mayor Lo Ta-sheng, second right, on Monday presents Tetsuhiro Muto, second left, mayor of Mino City in Japan’s Gifu Prefecture ... Mino City Council President Ikuo Yamaguchi, left, ...

Cherry blossoms brightly light up the streets of Japan every spring. While it's a delight to see the flowers while walking around popular spots in Japan, why not enjoy cherry blossoms in a more ...