A new facility called Elephant Village was completed at Osaka Tennoji Zoo in Tennoji Ward in Osaka in the spring, featuring ideas designed to allow elephants to live like their counterparts in the ...

Calligrapher Shigeyuki Matsumoto recently produced work expressing hope for world peace and the recovery of disaster-stricken areas at Oitaken Gokoku Jinja shrine in Maki, Oita City.

UCHIKO, Ehime — Representatives from theaters and local governments across Japan took part in a summit devoted to preserving traditional Japanese theaters at the Uchiko community center in Uchiko, ...

Gunmen opened fire during a funeral at a church in Jordan on Friday, killing seven people and wounding 40 others, authorities said.

While no person has ever set foot on Mars, humankind has managed to conduct extensive explorations of the surface of Earth’s planetary neighbor using robotic rovers. One of them, NASA’s six-wheeled ...

No. 5 maegashira Yoshinofuji, right, the wrestler formerly known as Kusano, defeats sekiwake Aonishiki on the 11th day of the Kyushu tournament in Fukuoka on Nov. 19. When No. 5 maegashira Yoshinofuji ...

A woman was driving a large truck while watching a video on her smartphone and ended up killing six people. With that resulting in a seven-year prison sentence, there is no way that the bereaved ...

Bright red salvias bloom in the Tottori Prefectural Flower Park in Nanbu, Tottori Prefecture, against the backdrop of Mt. Daisen, the highest peak in the Chugoku region.

Few animals show the link between size and lifespan as clearly as dogs. Within this one species, large breeds such as Great Danes typically die younger than small ones such as Chihuahuas. A new study ...

Due to warm air flowing in from the south, downtown Tokyo recorded 30.3 C just after 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, marking the ...

Japan’s Ryutaro Kuno won gold in the men’s 100-meter sprint in the T12 category for runners with visual impairment, setting a new Asian record of 10.85 seconds at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Para Games in ...

North Korea will place anti-South Korea loudspeakers on standby along the entire border within days and has put unspecified new countermeasures on alert, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North ...