With efforts to find a driver who fell in expected to take about three months, there is no concrete timeline in place on when ...

Rice prices in Japan have remained high despite hopes that they would normalize after the government announced plans two ...

Saitama Prefecture lifted an evacuation order on February 19 it had in place for 47 residents near a massive sinkhole ...

On February 27, Masamichi Hidaka, a 30-year-old clinical radiologist at Koshigaya Municipal Hospital, allegedly took tosatsu ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries announced on Monday that it will hold an auction for ...

On Sunday, five households near the sinkhole in Saitama Prefecture were asked to evacuate and take shelter by local government officials, The Japan Times reported. More than a hundred residents living ...

A Kurdish residents' association in Japan has filed a damages suit against a man for defaming them through anti-Kurdish rallies near the gr･･･ ...

Reports of suspicious phone calls and home visits by scammers posing as government officials have climbed since the sinkhole ...

SAITAMA (TR) – There have been a series of bag-snatching incidents across the prefecture. Police recorded 12 thefts over a ...

The Japanese weather agency warned of snow in central Tokyo and neighboring areas from Tuesday evening that could disrupt traffic due to icy roads. Heavy snow is expected in mountainous areas in ...

This move follows a road collapse incident in Saitama Prefecture, last month, believed to have been caused by a broken sewage ...

A forest fire in northeastern Japan has scorched the largest area of land in more than 30 years, the central government said ...