SAPPORO–A highly toxic plant suspected to be giant hogweed, which can cause severe damage to the skin, has been discovered ...

Sohei Kamiya insists that he and his rising Sanseito political party are not encouraging hatred and discrimination against ...

YANGON--Nearly $300 million worth of confiscated illegal drugs were destroyed in Myanmar’s major cities on Thursday to mark ...

Workers’ compensation cases for deaths and illnesses caused by overwork or work-related stress hit an all-time high in fiscal ...

Senior officials from Trygroup Inc. have formally apologized for streaming educational materials that falsely claimed ...

Japan conducted its first domestic drill of a long-range missile on June 24, a move that underscores Tokyo’s growing focus on ...

This happened during a reporting trip to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, sometime in the early 2000s, before ...

Shareholders of Fuji Media Holdings Inc. on June 25 backed management’s slate of directors and rejected those proposed by a U ...

Innovative craftsmen have turned the discarded skins of filleted fish into an eye-catching and durable new material: “fish leather.” ...

The transport ministry’s Kanto District Transport Bureau in Yokohama issued a notice revoking Japan Post Co.'s general ...

Five more national leprosy sanitariums during and after World War II have reported administering an experimental drug called ...

Japan’s government will consider cutting its economic growth estimate for the current fiscal year ending in March 2026 due to ...