UPDATES
Mount Fuji's climbing season ends; all trails closed un...
Mount Fuji's climbing season ended on Wednesday, with all four trails closed unt...
Woman contests Japan hospital's triple-rate charge for ...
A woman filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a hospital in Japan that diagnosed and...
Graffiti found on pillars at World Heritage site Kasuga...
NARA -- Graffiti was discovered on pillars at the World Heritage site Kasugatais...
Key Japan stock indexes end at fresh record highs
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's key stock indexes ended at fresh all-time highs on Wedn...
Fate of animals at closing Sapporo zoo remains uncertain
Over 300 animals including some predators at a privately owned zoo in Sapporo fa...
Japan mayor at center of academic fraud scandal dissolv...
ITO, Shizuoka -- Ito Mayor Maki Takubo on Sept. 10 dissolved the municipal assem...
Easy Japanese news in translation: Sloth celebrates 1st...
A cake was presented to a male two-toed sloth cub celebrating his first birthday...
Slain Japanese doctor was 'beacon of hope' in Afghanist...
Before he was gunned down in Afghanistan in 2019 at the age of 73, Dr Tetsu Naka...
Dead cockroach found in ramen at Tenkaippin restaurant ...
A dead cockroach was found in a bowl of noodles served to a customer at a restau...
JR East to resume 5 suspended E8-series bullet trains b...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- JR East said Tuesday that five E8-series trains taken out of se...
N. Korea's Kim rules out denuclearization on founding a...
BEIJING (Kyodo) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears to have ruled out den...
Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode that cause...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's transport ministry on Wednesday reprimanded Japan Airli...
Football: Sub-par Japan beaten 2-0 by World Cup co-host...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Kyodo) -- Japan were beaten 2-0 away to the United States on Tue...
Japan opposition parties demand ruling bloc to convene ...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese opposition parties on Wednesday demanded that the ruli...
Man delayed arriving at hospital dies after ambulance i...
NAGOYA -- A 77-year-old man has died after the ambulance carrying him was delaye...
