Drought in the mountainous areas of central and northeastern Japan is contributing to the spread of forest fires on a scale ...

As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people. Excavation is not his ...

Their common ancestor is estimated to have diverged approximately 10 million years ago during the Late Miocene, coinciding with the separation of the Japanese archipelago from the continent.

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. The remains of some 1,400 people found ...

Snowfall reached record levels in eastern Hokkaido while blanketing other parts of the Japanese archipelago on Feb. 4, and more snow is forecast for wide areas through Feb. 6. The heavy snow is ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa’s jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump complained Thursday that his country's decades-old security treaty with Japan is nonreciprocal, ...

vowed Friday to bring vitality back to the country through the remodeling of the Japanese archipelago in the current Reiwa era. In the address at a plenary meeting of the House of Representatives ...

TOKYO - A combination of prolonged dryness and strong winds allowed a fire in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, to spread rapidly.

Sado Island, Japan, is inhabited by seven species of snakes, the largest number in any isolated island in Japan, except for the subtropical Ryukyu Archipelago. Researchers from the University of ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Wednesday that other nations do not decide its defense budget after U.S.