Two Asahi Shimbun reporters will accompany the 67th observation team to Antarctica departing from Japan in December.

Spiders give some folks the heebie-jeebies, but web-weaving arachnids produce a unique, versatile material that could be the ...

A campground has opened beside a dam lake here to offer tourists more to do in this sleepy town than just observe a famous ...

Torrential rain pounded the Tokyo metropolitan area on Sept. 11, flooding buildings, disrupting transportation services and ...

The woman whose genetic test in the 1980s led sports leaders to conclude it was too intrusive, not definitive enough and, ...

NAGASAKI--Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko visited a nursing care facility here on Sept. 13 ...

Crown Princess Kiko marked her 59th birthday on Sept. 11, looking back on a year where she saw her son start university and ...

Sebastian Coe, the head of World Athletics, on Friday said the organization is sticking to its long-held position that ...

As Mount Fuji officially closed its summer climbing season on Sept. 10, authorities declared a landmark success in curbing ...

For years, a humble little railway crossing at Kamakura-Koko-Mae Station on the Enoshima Electric Railway Line here has ...

SAGA—A forensic DNA analyst here was fired for committing more than 100 acts of misconduct, including fabricating reports ...

In helping keep a long tradition alive, three people weaved a Sakai Dantsu, or a Sakai-style “dantsu” thick carpet, on a loom ...