An 85-year-old man was bitten on his rear by a bear while tending to his garden at about 5:30 a.m. Saturday, police said. The ...

A Yamanashi Gakuin University wrestler in May ate cookies believed to contain a cannabis ingredient and jumped from the ...

Heavily seasoned “sinful gourmet foods” that are high in calories and fat content and can never be called healthy have ...

Japanese literature specialist Susumu Nakanishi has published a book introducing the appeal of manyo nihonga, paintings ...

Cooking expert Ryuta Kijima shares two simmered dishes made with dried foods, which he recommends cooking carefully based on ...

An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 4.4 struck off the coast of the Tokara Islands at about 12:42 p.m. on Sunday.

Foreign residents may soon have to pay their national health insurance premiums up front in some areas, according to a plan ...

The number of Asian black bear sightings nationwide from January to May hit the highest ever since 2010, when comparable data ...

A strong earthquake measuring upper 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 hit Akusekijima Island in Kagoshima ...

I believe you all love blood, murder, crime and violence as much as I do — in fiction, of course,” said novelist Akira Otani ...

However, this special menu uses domestically raised eel, which results in an additional cost of ¥800 per meal. As the city ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that his latest conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump this ...