The Sakurajima volcano in Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture erupted once again on 9. Footage sped-up in post shows plumes of ash ...

On Nov. 11, a Yasen-class nuclear-powered submarine passed through the Soya Strait, which separates Japan’s northernmost main ...

Robert Takata is unlike any of his predecessors. The 48-year-old is the first Japanese-Dominican to be appointed as the ...

Amami Oshima in Kagoshima Prefecture has officially declared the eradication of invasive mongooses, completing the removal of ...

KAGOSHIMA (TR) – Kanagawa Prefectural Police have arrested a male high school student over the alleged murder of a ...

Japan is battling the coldest wave of the season with record-breaking snowfall in the northern main island of Hokkaido. Traffic has been hit and airports closed. Weather agencies have said the extreme ...

Japan has successfully launched a rocket carrying another satellite to join the country's own version of a satellite ...

An 18-year-old high school student was arrested Saturday for allegedly stabbing to death a woman on a southwestern Japan ...

Kagoshima, Feb. 2 (Jiji Press)--Police in Kagoshima Prefecture have arrested an 18-year-old male high school student for allegedly murdering a 55-year-old nursery teacher on Tokunoshima Island in ...

Japan on Sunday successfully launched a flagship H3 rocket and put into orbit a quasi-zenith satellite, aiming to improve the ...

Snow has hit wide areas of Japan since late Monday, February 3, as the “strongest cold front this season” arrived in the ...

Feb. 2 (UPI) -- SpaceX launched 22 more Starlink satellites, this time from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from pad 4E at 3:02 p.m. PST Saturday. About eight ...