Tokyo authorities arrested a 65-year-old U.S. tourist for allegedly defacing the grate of a local shrine on Tuesday.

A fire broke out on a Japanese Self-Defence Forces ship on Sunday, with national broadcaster NHK reporting that one crew member was hospitalised due to smoke inhalation. The Maritime Self-Defence ...

A U.S.-Japan exercise was canceled after a Japanese sailor went missing after a fire aboard a minesweeper that eventually ...

The capital hopes to improve living conditions at evacuation centers and boost its disaster response capability.

Anchor] Due to abnormal high temperatures in many parts of Japan, autumn leaves are late, and Mt. Fuji has the latest snow in ...

the Tokyo Fire Department and local medical associations, participated. The drill was conducted under the scenario that a passenger jet skidded off the runway upon landing, and then an engine ...

Major lines operated by East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) in the Tokyo area were temporarily suspended on the afternoon of Oct. 10 after an electrical fire broke out at a substation in Saitama ...

Telling the story of a small, subsistence farming mountain community whose few remaining members keep drifting away to nearby cities, Tsuta Tetsuichiro’s second feature, 2013’s The Tale of Iya, drew ...

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office has indicted a 46-year-old man on murder and arson charges after he allegedly killed his ex-wife and four children and then set fire to the house where ...

Asian shares were trading mostly lower Tuesday, despite a rally on Wall Street in stocks seen as benefiting the most from ...

Near the start of Izumi Suzuki’s Set My Heart on Fire, its 24-year-old protagonist ruminates on her failed past relationships ...

Asia’s spiritual traditions of nature worship and religious syncretism are the starting point for Mami Kataoka’s curation of this year’s AWT Focus exhibition, Earth, Wind, and Fire: Visions of the ...