Two men and an underage boy have been arrested for allegedly attempting to break into a residence in the Chiba Prefecture ...

A decision by Japanese authorities to prosecute a 17-year-old girl whose suicide resulted in another woman’s death has ...

A sample of the asteroid Ryugu returned to Earth by the Hayabusa2 mission was rapidly colonized by terrestrial microorganisms ...

Japanese police on Nov. 27 raided four locations in Chiba, Saitama and Osaka prefectures that were used as storage points for ...

Japanese health authorities say the influenza season has begun in Tokyo and six surrounding prefectures. The National ...

The first major free-agent domino of the offseason has fallen, and it was a pitcher the New York Yankees were reportedly ...

Researchers have explored a fascinating cooling phenomenon within halide perovskite-based "dots-in-crystal" materials, ...

With an absolutely scorching final month of the season that brought them to the doorstep of playing in the ALCS, the Tigers’ ...

Each week, the weekly magazine Shukan Jitsuwa (Nov 28) serves up a potpourri of newsy tidbits titled "News Scramble." ...

Don't miss the upcoming episode of the ongoing romantic-comedy sports anime Blue Box to see what happens next. Blue Box ...

Around 90 percent of bird species are socially monogamous, but if the bond is broken without death, it is known as divorce.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are widely considered front runners for the Japanese ace, but we consider alternative teams who could ...