A Yamanashi Gakuin University wrestler in May ate cookies believed to contain a cannabis ingredient and jumped from the ...

An 85-year-old man was bitten on his rear by a bear while tending to his garden at about 5:30 a.m. Saturday, police said. The ...

Heavily seasoned “sinful gourmet foods” that are high in calories and fat content and can never be called healthy have ...

Cooking expert Ryuta Kijima shares two simmered dishes made with dried foods, which he recommends cooking carefully based on ...

The number of Asian black bear sightings nationwide from January to May hit the highest ever since 2010, when comparable data ...

I believe you all love blood, murder, crime and violence as much as I do — in fiction, of course,” said novelist Akira Otani ...

Japanese literature specialist Susumu Nakanishi has published a book introducing the appeal of manyo nihonga, paintings ...

A strong earthquake measuring upper 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 hit Akusekijima Island in Kagoshima ...

With the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament set to open on July 13, yokozuna Hoshoryu and yokozuna Onosato offered a ceremonial ring-entering performance called “dohyo-iri” at Atsuta Jingu shrine in Nagoya ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] Earthquakes struck off the coast of the Tokara Islands at about 2:01 p.m. and 2:07 p.m. on Sunday. Akusekijima Island, part of Kagoshima Prefecture’s ...

An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 4.4 struck off the coast of the Tokara Islands at about 12:42 p.m. on Sunday.

Foreign residents may soon have to pay their national health insurance premiums up front in some areas, according to a plan ...