An explosion occurred inside a tank during firing exercises at the Ground Self-Defense Force’s Hijudai maneuver area in Oita Prefecture on Tuesday. Three personnel were killed and one injured, ...

Samurai Japan skipper Hirokazu Ibata, whose squad failed to get past the quarterfinal stage at this year’s World Baseball Classic, will step down with his contract to soon expire, Nippon Professional ...

A police officer was bitten by a bear on his face and right arm in a forest in Shiwa, Iwate Prefecture, at around 9:50 a.m. on Tuesday.

The total length of sewer pipes in Japan that have been judged to require countermeasures due to risks such as cave-ins ...

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck off the coast of Iwate Prefecture on Monday was a trench-type earthquake, according ...

Criticism against the U.S. attack on Iran is mounting across Europe, and even right-wing elements that had maintained good relations with U.S. President Donald Trump have begun to distance themselves.

Two Chinese Navy vessels — a destroyer and a frigate — passed between Amami Oshima Island and Yokoatejima Island, both in Kagoshima Prefecture, on Sunday, moving from the East China Sea into the ...

The government is establishing a system to quickly dispatch Disaster Welfare Assistance Teams, or DWATs, to disaster-hit ...

Max Muncy went 4 for 4 with two homers and scored four times as the Los Angeles Dodgers hit five longballs to back Justin Wrobleski in a 12-3 victory Monday night over the Colorado Rockies.

Eight paintings by children from around the world have received the Minister of Foreign Affairs’ Award at the 56th International Children’s Art Exhibition. Judges praised the works for such elements ...

The government on Tuesday effectively lifted its ban on the export of weapons with lethal or destructive capabilities by scrapping the “five category” rule that had long restricted such transfers.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made a “masakaki” ritual tree offering to war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Tuesday for its spring festival, which began the same day.