Kurobe Dam, Kansai Electric Power Co.’s hydropower dam located 1,454 meters up in the mountains in Tateyama, Toyama ...

The education ministry is considering limiting living expense grants for outstanding PhD students to Japanese nationals. At ...

An employee at Yamagata Airport in Higashine, Yamagata Prefecture, spotted a bear near the runway at around 7 a.m. on ...

Two forestry workers were attacked by a bear while they were spraying deer repellant in a forest in Agematsu, Nagano ...

The European Union plans to propose that all eel species, including the Japanese eel, be subject to trade regulation under ...

Yoshinoya Co., a major gyudon beef and rice bowl chain operator, announced on Wednesday that it will launch its first ever ...

Visitors to Japan have been key customers for department stores, but now they are tightening the purse strings. Foreign ...

The operator of bento take-out chain Hokka-Hokka Tei has announced that it would reduce the additional charge for a large ...

The former Abe faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, also known as Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyukai, was officially dissolved on ...

A growing number of businesses are choosing to renovate aging office buildings and commercial facilities to avoid hurdles in ...

Efforts to utilize secondhand musical instruments are underway in Hamamatsu, a city of musical instruments where world-famous ...

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States will make Spain pay twice as much for a trade deal after the ...