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...
Typhoon Jebi has made landfall in western Japan, flooding a major airport on a man-made island and leaving a trail of destruction, officials say. At least...
Shoko Asahara, the founder of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo and the mastermind behind the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, has been...
Japanese woman Nabi Tajima, the last surviving child of the 19th century and the 3rd oldest person in recorded human history, has died, her family says....