Sixth graders don expensive hakama outfits for graduation.小学校の卒業式 ｢はかま姿｣が人気に小学校の卒業式がピークを迎えた。晴れの舞台に｢はかま姿｣の児童の姿が目立つようになってき...

An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease at a hot spring in western Japan sends 14 people to hospitals.

Oriental storks, once extinct in Japan, hatch on Shikoku Island.

An elderly man and woman collapse in a snow hut from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning while barbecuing mutton in Sappo...

The president of a scandal-hit kindergarten tells Parliament that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife Akie donated one mill...

Japan is moving to create unified standards for automatic brakes to halt a rise in accidents involving elderly drivers.

For the first time reported in Japan, a woman has given birth with an egg provided by an anonymous third party donor.

Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force commissions the Kaga, a large new helicopter carrier, amid increased Chinese activit...

Operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant plans a reorganization to find funds to cover nuclear disaster ...

Japanese health authorities say that there is no health risk to consumers from chicken meat imported from a Brazilian co...