Reports of suspicious phone calls and home visits by scammers posing as government officials have climbed since the sinkhole ...

Japanese authorities have asked hundreds of residents near Tokyo to evacuate as a sinkhole at an intersection grew to more than 40 meters wide, hampering rescuers racing to reach an elderly truck ...

Saitama Prefecture lifted an evacuation order on February 19 it had in place for 47 residents near a massive sinkhole ...

A project to open a Starbucks cafe in the parking lot of a park in the Saitama Prefecture city of Gyoda has been suspended ...

SAITAMA—Parents and children of Chinese heritage are an increasingly common sight at entrance exam venues for competitive ...

Police in Koshigaya City, Saitama Prefecture, have arrested a 58-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of breaking into a house and stealing 13,000 yen in cash from the 66-year-old man who lives there.

A Kurdish residents' association in Japan has filed a damages suit against a man for defaming them through anti-Kurdish ...

A truck cab that fell into a widening sinkhole in Yashio, Japan, late last month has been found. Officials believe the body ...

The meeting of signatories to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is set to be held in New York in March.

A prominent Japanese hibakusha atomic bomb survivor expressed regret Sunday over the Japanese government's decision not to ...

This move follows a road collapse incident in Saitama Prefecture, last month, believed to have been caused by a broken sewage ...

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