The Shizuoka prefectural police arrested Ichiro Yamashita, 41, at the scene on suspicion of trying to kill the bar’s female ...

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. Sunday, police said. The ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that his latest conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump this ...

Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani worked two scoreless innings against the Houston Astros on Saturday in his fourth ...

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.