The Tohoku region has seen a remarkable surge in the number of overseas cruise vessels visiting its ports. 74 ships had ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba visited Akasaka Sanno Medical Center in Tokyo on Wednesday morning. “I have heard it was a ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) — Heatwaves deep in oceans may be “significantly under-reported,” highlighting an area of marine warming ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in ...

A deep-diving robot that chiseled into the rocky Pacific seabed at a spot where two of the immense plates comprising Earth’s ...

PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — Massive fields of magma underneath ancient volcanoes spewed out carbon dioxide long after eruptions on the ...

With the assistance of China’s Zhurong rover, scientists have gathered fresh evidence that Mars was home to an ocean billions ...

A trial demonstration of self-driving cars was conducted on a stretch of highway along the Oirase Gorge in Towada, Aomori ...

Japan’s Seven & i Holdings 3382.T has received a buyout proposal from a member of its founding Ito family, it said on ...

Nuclear fuel debris taken out of the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has been transported to the ...

Liberal Democratic Party, Komeito and Democratic Party for the People policy research council chiefs attend their first ...

The percentage of single-person households is expected to exceed 40% in 27 prefectures in 2050, according to a projection ...