The climbing season on Mount Fuji kicked off on July 1 with the opening of the Yoshida trail in Yamanashi Prefecture.

A cap on overtime hours for truck drivers went into effect on April 1, raising concerns of future disruptions to logistics and the possibility of eventually becoming impossible to transport some goods ...

A record 98.1 percent of students who graduated from university this spring had received job offers as of the April 1 start ...

KOFU--A man who killed the parents of a girl who had spurned him when he was 19 became the first person sentenced to death ...

This mountain city is known as the training site for Aoyama Gakuin University, a powerhouse in the annual New Year’s Hakone ...

The Tokyo District Court on May 19 ordered a man to pay 1.29 million yen ($11,800) for defaming reality TV star Hana Kimura ...

Japan’s population shrank by 0.7 percent in 2023, although the net loss of 861,237 included a record high inflow of 329,535 ...

The industry ministry plans to allow utilities to build new nuclear reactors on condition they decommission the same number ...

A Tokyo-listed, fast-growing artificial intelligence firm is under investigation for allegedly inflating its sales figures ...

A report on climate change in Japan released on March 26 warns that if temperatures continue to rise significantly, the ...

For decades, humble signs hand-cut from industrial tape have guided millions of commuters through the labyrinth of Tokyo’s ...

Guests checking in might think they are in a toy store, as some 500 Plarail train cars were seen lined up by the side of the ...