Reports of suspicious phone calls and home visits by scammers posing as government officials have climbed since the sinkhole ...

during which much of Tokyo was destroyed by American bombing raids. The sewage system in question in the Saitama prefecture is about 42 years old. “We will have such events more in the future ...

Tokyo's Skytree soars 634 metres (2,080 feet) upwards, giving spectacular views of the Japanese megalopolis and -- on a clear ...

A labor union of nurses and other staff at medical institutions under Japan's National Hospital Organization staged a ...

Following the road collapse in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, a nationwide emergency inspection of sewer pipes discovered corrosion and other abnormalities in three locations in the prefecture.

A forest fire in northeastern Japan has scorched the largest area of land in more than 30 years, the central government said ...

A truck driver has spent more than 24 hours trapped under a Japan sinkhole that swallowed his vehicle in the greater Tokyo ...

A prominent Japanese hibakusha atomic bomb survivor expressed regret Sunday over the Japanese government's decision not to ...