Under the new plan, for example, the prefectural governments of Toyama, Fukushima and Shimane will send officials to Shizuoka ...

Police in Tahara, Aichi Prefecture, are investigating the theft of about 800 cabbages from a field earlier this month. According to police, the grower noticed the cabbages missing on the morning of ...

INAZAWA, Aichi -- Some 7,980 men in loincloths fiercely jostled to touch the "lucky man" during the recently held Konomiya ...

JETRO and Central Japan Startup Ecosystem Consortium held a media event for overseas and English-language media on February 4 ...

The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry will designate in advance local governments that will dispatch relief ...

Toyota Motor Corp.'s labor union said Wednesday it has demanded the same level of wage hike as last year's -- the highest ...

The aim of the policy is to enable local governments that will provide support, and the prefectures expected to receive help, to conduct joint disaster drills and other preparations.

TOPS will remain, but a new group will provide financial support to athletes who may not be good enough to medal at the Games ...

Police in Takahama City, Aichi Prefecture, have arrested a 54-year-old unemployed woman on suspicion of abandoning the body of her 91-year-old father at their home by not reporting his death. Police ...

We feel sorry because we cry,' wrote philosopher and psychologist William James, 'angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble,' suggesting that emotional bodily responses like crying cause ...

The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one ...

The main building of Inazawa City Hall in central Japan's Aichi Prefecture is topped with a large roof supported by columns spaced 1･･･ ...