American strategic bombers and Japanese fighter jets have conducted a joint military exercise. This demonstration of air power occurred nea...

Japan is on high alert after its first megaquake advisory, issued post a 7.1 magnitude quake off Kyushu. Increasing the likelihood of a mas...

A tsunami has reached Japan's southwestern Miyazaki prefecture following two powerful earthquakes on Thursday. The earthquakes, with magnit...

The magnitude 6.6 quake was centred just off the western coast of the southwestern main island of Shikoku, in an area called the Bungo Chan...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 hit southern Japan, centered at the Bungo Channel. The quake hit Ehime and Kochi prefectu...

Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Kenzaburo Oe has died at the age of 88. Oe's novels, which were built from his childhood memories durin...

The 'mermaid mummy' was allegedly caught in the Pacific Ocean between 1736 and 1741.

Around 230,000 people were advised to evacuate across eight prefectures due to the tsunami risk, NHK reported. The alert included areas hit...

Umeno Sumiyama and Koume Kodama were born the third and fourth of 11 siblings.

More than 370,000 head of poultry will be slaughtered and buried after avian influenza was discovered at two breeding farms in Mimasaka cit...

If your idea of rejuvenation is venturing into nature, a casual spin on a bicycle is just perfect.

The third of our travel series tells you on what to see and where to stay when holidaying in Rajasthan and Japan.

Japan will soon start trialling electronic textbooks in primary schools, enhancing the role of IT in the classroom for a generation of "dig...