The Japanese government has drawn up draft guidelines for municipalities to enhance preparedness for large-scale earthquakes in a bid to improve the effectiveness of local disaster countermeasures, ...

The chief of the operator of Sendai International Airport in Miyagi Prefecture, which was privatized a decade ago, has expressed confidence in making economic contributions to the Tohoku northeastern ...

Chinese and Russian bombers jointly flew around Japan twice Saturday, Japan's Defense Ministry has said. It was the first time since last December that bombers from China and Russia were confirmed to ...

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and his South Korean counterpart, Ahn Gyu-back, affirmed Sunday that they will work to strengthen communication and efforts for stable and future-oriented de ...

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and his South Korean counterpart, Ahn Gyu-back, affirmed Sunday that they will work to strengthen communication and efforts for the development of stable and ...

Japan, the United States and South Korea held a two-day diplomatic working group meeting in Washington through Friday to "coordinate responses" to cryptocurrency theft, laundering and other cyber ...

The Japanese and Indian governments are considering a plan to establish a joint task force for cooperation in stockpiling liquefied natural gas in light of lingering tensions in the Middle East, it ...

A strong earthquake hit northeastern Japan on Sunday morning, measuring up to lower 5, the fifth-highest level on the country's seismic intensity scale. Lower 5 was recorded in the city of Hachinohe i ...

Japanese singer Akihiro Miwa, known for "Yoitomake no Uta" and other songs, died of old age on June 20, his talent agency said on its website Sunday. He was 91. Miwa, whose real name was Akihiro ...

Typhoon Mekkhal is expected to move close to the Kanto region of eastern Japan on Saturday night after traveling northeast over the sea off the Shikoku western region earlier in the day. The seventh t ...

Attention is being paid to whether Japanese parliamentary business will be normalized this week following the opposition camp's boycotting of proceedings in both chambers of the Diet, the country's ...

An international workshop on Japan's worst nuclear accident 15 years ago was held in the town of Futaba in the eastern prefecture of Fukushima on Saturday. The gathering took place at a hotel that ...