A sinkhole that suddenly opened up on a road just northeast of Tokyo and swallowed a truck has captured national attention as ...

Another sinkhole has since opened up nearby, and residents within a 650-foot radius had been evacuated, a spokesman said.

Officials said that as waste water from the damaged pipe flooded the hole, it caused a second sinkhole to appear on Thursday. Video footage showed a lamp post and a restaurant sig ...

Ozeki Champion Hoshoryu has been recommended for promotion to sumo's top rank after winning his second grand tournament title ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted Fukushima Prefecture and nearby areas early Thursday, the weather agency said.

The Bank of Japan is holding a policy meeting from Thursday, with attention on whether it will raise interest rates again for ...

That’s partly why the birth rate is crashing in Japan from 1.2 million births in the year 2000 to below 700,000 today. Japan also lacks a system that can force fathers to pay child support ...

A strong earthquake measuring a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 has rattled southwestern Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency said Monday that tsunami advisories were issued for Miyazaki Prefecture, ...

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture on New Year’s Day, causing shaking of level 7 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale in the municipalities of Wajima ...

Those small medium companies which hire cheap labor as trainee and special skilled worker, that only have 50 or even less than 20 worker also being considered "firms". These companies are so many, ...

Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million.

Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to ...