Leaders of Shimane, Hiroshima, Kochi and Ehime call for efforts to ensure residents’ safety following Pyongyang’s threat to launch missiles over Japan to waters near Guam.
One person died after being swept away by a swollen river and six people, including some children, have been reported missing after heavy rain hit western Japan on Wednesday, officials said. More than 60,000 residents of Hiroshima and Shimane prefectures were temporarily advised to evacuate. In ...
A man who died in a November 2009 car crash has been referred to prosecutors over the slaying of a female university student around the same time, according to police. The woman's body was found dismembered in a mountainous area after she went missing in ...
A Hiroshima court rejected a suit Wednesday demanding invalidation of the outcome of the July Upper House election due to disparity in the weight of votes, adding to a growing list of similar rulings over the election. But in the 10th ruling on similar lawsuits ...
When the first Portuguese merchants and missionaries reached Japan in 1543, the warriors they encountered were armed with steel swords that were equal to, or better than, any being produced in Europe. The blades of those lethal weapons, they soon discovered, didn't start life as ...
The central government sent a representative Monday to the "Takeshima Day" ceremony, which highlights Japan's sovereignty claims over a pair of outcroppings in the Sea of Japan controlled by South Korea. Yasuyuki Sakai, a Cabinet Office parliamentary secretary, took part in the ceremony in Matsue. ...
Just over a month ago, commuters emerging from a busy subway station in Taipei were greeted by a strange sight: a rare Siberian crane standing on the sidewalk, apparently quite comfortable with the crowd it was attracting. Only 4,000 such cranes, also known as snow ...
An hourglass at a museum in Shimane Prefecture that measures the duration of a year has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's largest, the museum said Sunday. The hourglass, built at the Nima Sand Museum in Oda, is 5.2 meters tall and ...
A small shop in western Japan with a history dating back to the 18th century will present a flying-fish paste flavored with local rice wine at Expo Milano 2015, the international culinary fair that opened this month in Italy. Staffers at Aoyama Shoten in Shimane ...
Two fishermen died and three others were missing after a large fishing boat sank in the Sea of Japan early Wednesday, the Japan Coast Guard said. The 135-ton Gempuku Maru No. 1 with 20 crew members aboard — 17 Japanese and three Indonesians — sank ...
The 10th month of the lunar calendar is known throughout most of Japan as Kannazuki, or the "month of no gods." During this time, Okuninushi, the kami (Shinto god) enshrined at the renowned Izumo Taisha shrine, summons myriad deities to decide the fate of ...
On Oki Islands off Shimane Prefecture, a bold wave of reform seems to be having a positive effect.
