Wide areas of the Kanto and Chugoku regions were blanketed with snow on the morning of March 19 due to a cold air mass and a ...

Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. A man holds up a Palestinian flag on Jan. 19 ...

Areas in Hokkaido saw some of the sharpest rises in land prices in 2024, thanks largely to foreign visitors who have ...

KOBE—A third-party investigative panel on March 19 concluded that Hyogo Governor Motohiko Saito committed power harassment on ...

SEOUL--The U.S. energy department put South Korea on a watchlist because visitors to its laboratories mishandled sensitive ...

Scammers based abroad who pose as law enforcement officers are displaying genuine phone numbers of police stations in Japan ...

The infrastructure ministry has announced a nationwide survey of aging sewer pipe systems following the recent road collapse in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, that created a massive sinkhole.

MORIOKA—Colorful ice-fishing huts in red, yellow and green dot the snow-covered ice on Lake Gandoko here that stretches as ...

Shoppers may soon get welcome relief for soaring rice prices as the government started the release of its massive stockpile ...

Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball, and Ichiro Suzuki enters the Hall of Fame later ...

Municipal governments of Tokyo's central wards are taking a variety of measures to encourage foreign visitors to keep the yen ...

A man in Sapporo preparing for retirement thought he had stumbled across an easy way to make money, and his optimism soared ...