An art project that lets climbers view works at shrines and mountain huts along Mount Fuji's Subashiri Trail has opened in ...

Saitama began English education at all municipal elementary schools in the 2007 academic year, then gave it a boost by ...

Over 1,200 disaster relief volunteers have entered quake-hit Kumamoto Prefecture since municipalities started accepting the ...

Japan's Foreign Ministry lodged a protest with South Korea on Friday over suspected maritime research near islets in the Sea ...

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The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in exam preparations is becoming increasingly common among students in ...

Young people in Tokyo's Kabukicho district continue to overdose on drugs, even obtaining prescription-only psychotropic ...

Japan's Defense Ministry plans to seek a record budget of 8.9 trillion yen ($56 billion) for fiscal 2027, sources familiar ...

All four Humboldt penguins that were being kept at a zoo in northeastern Japan and died one after the other last month were ...

The U.S. dollar dived by more than 1 yen to the lower 157 zone on receding expectations of an early U.S. interest rate hike ...

A research team has confirmed ground-surface displacement stretching about 33 kilometers along a fault zone after the ...

The administration of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, to begin with, lacks efforts to sit down and address nuclear disarmament ...