TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Long-running popular humorous Japanese manga series "Crayon Shin-chan" and "Chibi Maruko-chan" will ...

TOKYO: Taisei Corp. unveiled a building on Monday (Feb 16) that can practically achieve net-zero carbon dioxide emissions, ...

Public prosecutors on Thursday demanded the death penalty for a 43-year-old man charged with killing three members of a family at their house in the city of Hanno, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, ...

First is to have a meal and watch a live sumo wrestling at the same time... This takes place at the Sumo Live Restaurant Hirakuza in Tokyo’s Ginza district. You can watch a live sumo “show” as you ...

The average price of a new condominium in central Tokyo in January rose 15.8 percent from a year earlier to 121.26 million ...

The websites of multiple local governments in Japan have become inaccessible. Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara told a press conference Wednesday that the central government and others are gatheri ...

Saitama, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)--The cause of the sinkhole that formed in the city of Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, in January 2025 was corrosion in a sewer pipe, an investigation ...

In 1989 a Japanese man was discovered deceased inside a septic tank at a home in Saitama Prefecture in circumstances that have never been fully explained. Investigators examined access points ...

A Japanese city has received a hefty donation to help fix its ageing water system: 21kg (46lb) in gold bars. The gold bars, worth an estimated 560 million yen ($3.6m; £2.7m), were given last November ...

A man on trial for the murders of an American man and his wife and daughter in Hanno, Saitama Prefecture, on Christmas Day in 2022, on Monday pleaded not guilty. Jun Saito, 43, told the Saitama ...

Local authorities Saitama Prefecture on Friday requested the deployment of the Self-Defense Forces to control a forest fire that broke out earlier in the week. The fire has spread across about 40 ...

A traditional swordsmith in Japan says growing pop culture interest is bringing new, younger audiences to the centuries-old ...