When the coronavirus pandemic hit, lots of countermeasures were thought up, including some that can be called unreasonable.

The recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is a fast-dwindling group of atomic bomb survivors who are facing down the ...

TOKYO -- "I had been waiting, and waiting, and waiting for this day," Masakazu Saito, a 100-year-old hibakusha (atomic bomb ...

The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo), the only nationwide group representing ...

Japanese boxer Masamichi Yabuki won the IBF light flyweight belt from South Africa's Sivenathi Nontshinga with a ninth-roun ...

The Nobel committee likely gave the peace prize to Nihon Hidankyo to share the voices of atomic bomb survivors and make the ...

On multiple days this summer, U.S. military Osprey transport aircraft were observed flying over this southwestern Japan city.

Despite being charged with a season-ending 2-0 loss, Yu Darvish delivered another strong playoff performance for the San ...

Many students in Japan graduating in 2025 are dissatisfied with the pay offered by companies they plan to join, and over 60% ...

Yoshinobu Yamamoto outdueled Yu Darvish in a historic playoff matchup of Japanese-born starters, and the Los Angeles Dodgers ...

Tensions were running high at the Trinity site in the early morning hours of July 16, 1945 on the outskirts of Alamogordo, in ...

A police chief inspector who had a hairdresser cut a pattern into a subordinate's hair against the subordinate's wishes, ...