More than 60% of the surgeries to remove organs from donors who were declared brain dead were concentrated on weekends and ...

After The Yomiuri Shimbun and Kodansha Ltd. made public their joint proposal for revitalizing bookstores early this month, ...

About 225 hectares have burned as of 7 a.m. on Friday as a result of a forest fire in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on Wednesday, and the fire continues to spread.

Online sports betting has spread across the globe in recent years. As the phenomenon has grown, Japanese sporting events have ...

Columns of ice glisten in Hyakujojiki cave in Date, Hokkaido. The columns are formed by water that drips from the cave’s ceiling and freezes.

Misconduct has emerged among major nonlife insurance companies largely because competition has been distorted by cozy business relations as an oligopoly takes hold.

An international criminal organization based in Myanmar repeatedly lured young people and others from various countries to commit fraud. Japanese high school students were also forced to participate ...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi at a press conference on Thursday expressed his recognition of Ukrainian President ...

Yomiuri Shimbun file photoA digital textbook used at elementary schools The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] The ...

Seven Japanese nationals were detained or taken into custody by Thai police in connection with a case in which a Japanese ...

Japan’s government plans to focus attention on efforts to revitalize brick-and-mortar bookstores, which have been ...

The number of offensive comments posted on Yahoo News’ website declined by over 20% after the firm introduced an artificial ...