HEADLINES
Japan post office aids depopulated community with food ...
KITSUKI, Oita -- A support hub for elderly residents and others has opened at a ...
Curator in Hokkaido succeeds in creating 3D whale skele...
OSAKA (Kyodo) -- A museum curator in Hokkaido has succeeded in reconstructing a ...
Number of swimming beaches in Japan down 30% over 30 years
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The number of approved swimming beaches open during the summer ...
Baseball: Solid Yamamoto earns 1st complete-game win in...
NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Yoshinobu Yamamoto picked up his first complete-game win in ...
Rainy season over in Tokyo, mercury hits 35 C
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The rainy season has likely ended in regions including Tokyo an...
Japanese beetle advances through northern Italy's viney...
DONNAS, Italy (AP) -- The iridescent green beetles native to Japan have become a...
2 die in highway collision in western Japan, wrong-way ...
NARA (Kyodo) -- Two people died after a car and a minivan collided head-on on an...
Easy Japanese news in translation: Children's wishes sh...
In the city center of Yamagata, 1,100 lanterns have been put on display. Childre...
Japanese institute opens memorial site for famed chimpa...
NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- About six months after the death of Ai -- a female chimpanzee ...
7 injured after 20-meter tree falls during soccer match...
Seven people were taken to a hospital after a tree fell onto a sports ground in ...
2 confirmed dead after house collapses in heavy rains i...
A man and a woman found at the scene of a collapsed house in heavy rains near To...
Japan notifies local governments they may ban private l...
The Japanese government has notified local governments that they may effectively...
Man falls from apartment building, hitting and killing ...
A man fell or jumped from an apartment building in Nagoya on Sunday morning, hit...
Toyota president Kon prays for traffic safety in Nagano
NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Toyota Motor Corp. President Kenta Kon prayed Saturday for tra...
Japanese game maker Sega opens shop in Beijing, draws o...
BEIJING (Kyodo) -- Major Japanese game company Sega Corp. on Saturday opened an ...
Rugby: Japan lose 42-15 to France, drop to 1-2 in Natio...
TOKYO (Kyodo)-- Japan made a positive start but were shut out after the break in...
