As passenger numbers recover at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture following the coronavirus pandemic, the ...

The Japanese government is planning to generate some 20 gigawatts of electricity, equivalent to the output of 20 nuclear ...

The Japan Society for Tobacco Control (JSTC) has declared it will seek government action and legislation to prevent cigarette ...

Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun, a newspaper for children. This is perfect material for ...

The Kansai Press Photographers Association announced the winners of this fiscal year's awards for distinguished press photos ...

Yakult Swallows slugger Munetaka Murakami pledged Monday to do his best to lead his team to the championship next year before ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- "Futehodo," an abbreviation of the title of the popular drama "Futekisetsu nimo hodo ga aru!" was selected ...

The Osaka District Court on Dec. 1 went ahead with the forced removal of homeless people living on the grounds of a closed ...

Japan on Monday halted issuing new health insurance cards, as the government pushes to merge their functions into the My ...

A Japanese professor and lawyer said Monday they have together submitted a letter of complaint against Hyogo Gov. Motohiko ...

A bear was trapped and killed Monday after a two-day stay in a northeastern Japan supermarket, police said, ending an ...

Astronaut Takuya Onishi will serve as commander at the International Space Station from February at the earliest, becoming ...