TOKYO -- As Japan faces increasingly severe damage from intense rainfall brought on by a weather phenomenon called "linear ...

A special version of a traditional stringed Japanese musical instrument has been created to support reconstruction efforts in ...

Every summer on the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, festivals are held in various places, where large lanterns called "kiriko" are paraded thro･･･ ...

A senior ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker resigned Monday as head of the House of Councillors' powerful Budget ...

The chair of the Upper House Budget Committee has resigned from his post to take responsibility for a verbal gaffe about a ...

A survey found that some people described a gap between those who could access information and those who could not after the ...

Seventy percent of shops and restaurants currently operating from temporary facilities in the earthquake-hit Noto Peninsula in central Japan have no prospects of returning to their original locations, ...

Ruling party lawmaker Yosuke Tsuruho apologized and said, 'I lacked consideration for the disaster-hit areas.' ...

Criticized from all sides, the chair of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Upper House Budget Committee decided to resign from the post for a remark that angered survivors of the deadly Noto ...

A remote island chain in southern Japan has been rattled by more than 470 earthquakes since Saturday, the national weather agency said on ...

A woman reacts amidst debris caused by a massive earthquake and the ensuing tsunami in 2011Credit: AP:Associated Press Nearly ...

Not everywhere in Japan is suffering from overtourism, says Kate Crockett – the rural Noto Peninsula is welcoming tourists with open arms ...