A 58-year-old woman died after a small car she was driving fell down a cliff in Kumano, Mie Prefecture, on Wednesday. The car ...

A powerful earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.7 struck off the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia at about 8:25 a.m. on ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

The Novo Nordisk Foundation and Denmark’s state-owned credit fund said on July 17 they will invest in what they say will be the world’s most powerful quantum computer, aiming to revolutionize areas ...

Concerns are mounting after it became apparent that there is no joint document outlining the tariff agreement between Japan ...

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia’s Far East early Wednesday, causing tsunami waves to wash ashore ...

The Yomiuri Online releases “easy Japanese” news about the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo on its website to help foreign residents ...

Among the close-range hibakusha atomic bomb survivors who were within 500 meters of the hypocenter of the atomic bomb in ...

The Foreign Ministry has announced that it will establish new divisions to back up its efforts related to the economy, which is becoming increasingly important to diplomacy and security.

If funds that should be used to compensate victims of investment scams and other crimes are being illicitly withdrawn from frozen bank accounts, this cannot be overlooked. Measures to prevent the ...

As many as 107 herons found dead in a park in central Toyama last month died because the city cut down trees where they were ...

The temperature in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, reached 41.2 C on Wednesday, the highest ever to be recorded in Japan.