Japan and Indonesia’s defense ministers have agreed to begin talks on Japan exporting the Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Asagiri-class destroyers to the Southeast Asian nation.

The National Museum of Art, Osaka is strengthening its collaboration with neighboring cultural facilities this fiscal year to revitalize the local community through art.

The turtle’s movements when it faces an obstacle or another animal will be observed at the Nagoya aquarium. It will then be brought back to the Muroto aquarium in August. The plan is to release the ...

Freddie Freeman homered leading off the bottom of the ninth inning, lifting the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Angels 1-0 on Friday night in the Freeway Series opener. Add TheJapanNews to your Google ...

Public safety authorities in Shenzhen, Guangdong, are tightening controls on electric motor scooters in light of problems such as traffic violations and dangerous driving that have led to rampant ...

A monument of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo’s official mascot Myaku-Myaku was installed on Saturday at Sennan Long Park in Sennan, Osaka Prefecture, located across the water from Kansai Airport.

Tyrannosaurus rex was a huge land predator during the twilight of the age of dinosaurs. But it was not the only T. rex that terrorized the Cretaceous Period. There also was a marine reptile named ...

The National Police Agency has requested that a man wanted for his alleged involvement in a robbery-murder case in Tochigi Prefecture be placed on an Interpol wanted list.

The Kyoto prefectural police on Friday released a photograph on their official website of James “West” Higginbotham, a 20-year-old U.S. national who went missing while traveling in Kyoto.

Data obtained by the Yomiuri Shimbun shows that, over the 10-year period to 2024, Japan ranked third — behind the United States and China — in the number of scientific papers published on induced ...

Naumann’s elephant in the Japanese archipelago went extinct about 10,000 years earlier than previously believed, with climate change highly likely playing a significant role, a research team has said.

On a white sandy beach along the Seto Inland Sea, a giant sand sculpture depicting an ancient coin emerges from behind a pine forest.