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 ...

Princess Yuriko, the oldest member of Japan's imperial family, died at 101. Born in 1923, she married Prince Mikasa and lived through the war, supporting historic research and family duties. Her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Buddhist cosmologies, for instance, saw the universe as a dynamic equilibrium between five elements—earth, water, fire, wind and void—amid constant flux. Asia’s spiritual traditions of ...