A fleet of whaling ships left port on Monday at the start of Japan’s first commercial whaling season in more than three decades, officials say. The...
A Japanese man who served as vice minister and ambassador was arrested on Saturday for the murder of his son, who was stabbed to death at...
A knife-wielding man attacked girls as young as six at a bus stop in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, killing two people and injuring seventeen others before...
A vehicle has plowed into a group of preschoolers in western Japan, killing at least two children and injuring more than a dozen others, local officials...
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 has struck off the coast of northern Japan, seismologists say. No tsunami warnings were issued and serious...
A car has plowed into pedestrians on a busy street in the Japanese capital of Tokyo, injuring at least nine people in an apparent act of...
Japan will resume commercial whaling, a practice it officially ended more than 3 decades ago, and withdraw from the International Whaling Commission, officials say. It’s expected...
Japan will withdraw from the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial whaling, a practice it officially ended 30 years ago, according to local media. It’s likely...
A large explosion has ripped through a busy restaurant in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo, causing a massive fire and destroying most of the building,...
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 has struck northern Japan, triggering a landslide that buried homes in a rural town, officials say. At...