Eleven explosive ordnance disposal divers with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Sub Area Activity Okinawa unit ...

Coastguard patrols come amid signs of a thaw in Japan ties following disputes over buoys, seafood import bans.

Under the new plan, for example, the prefectural governments of Toyama, Fukushima and Shimane will send officials to Shizuoka ...

Chinese coastguard vessels began patrols of the contested waters off the Diaoyu Islands on Wednesday, a day after Beijing ...

The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry will designate in advance local governments that will dispatch relief ...

The aim of the policy is to enable local governments that will provide support, and the prefectures expected to receive help, to conduct joint disaster drills and other preparations.

In a district of Toyama, 16cm was recorded while 12cm was observed in Tomakomai on Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido. The ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) is preparing to dismantle tanks containing treated water at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP site ...

Fifty participants from 18 Asia-Pacific countries have embarked on a 12-day workshop in Japan from Awaji Island (Awaji-shima) ...

Over 100 people were stranded in two hotels in a hot-spring resort area in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, after a nearby road was blocked by an avalanche early Monday, local authorities said.

FUKUSHIMA—Forty people have been evacuated by helicopter after avalanches left them stranded for days at a hot spring resort ...

JETRO hopes to help expand sales channels for the fish in the United States, where Japanese cuisine has become popular amid ...