DNA sequencing of a 2,300-year-old Yayoi skeleton from the Doigahama archaeological site in Yamaguchi Prefecture reveals that ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--The Kangei Maru, a new whaling mother ship that will succeed the decommissioned Nisshin Maru, has been built here. A signing ceremony for its delivery was held ...

由东京大学的Jonghyun Kim和Jun ...

If Kyoto is too crowded for you, avoid the tourists and head to this western prefecture in Japan, where you can sample fresh ...

YAMAGUCHI—People are tired of squatting, it turns out, as a heated debate over updating public toilets closed out the ...

Guard Yuki Kawamura signed a two-way contract with the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday, becoming the first Japanese player ...

A joint research group has demonstrated that the majority of immigration to the Japanese Archipelago in the Yayoi and Kofun periods (between 3000 BCE and 538 CE) came from the Korean Peninsula. The ...

Some of the earliest inhabitants of Japan came from the Korean peninsula, according to a new study that sheds more light on ...

Chinese social media is buzzing about the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF)'s recent rescue of a Chinese national off ...

After helping lead the fight to free her younger brother from nearly a half-century on death row, Hideko Hakamada feels she ...

The defense ministers of Japan, the U.K. and Italy have agreed to accelerate the joint development of a next-generation ...

OSAKA (Kyodo) -- For a group of Japanese researchers, the phenomenon of humor is no laughing matter. For three decades, the ...