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

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

Saitama Prefecture officials said the search for a missing 74-year-old truck stuck in a large sinkhole shifted to an underground sewage pipe on Sunday.

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

Underground cables were cut, causing telecommunication issues in the neighborhood. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has decided to release government rice reserves as a measure against ...

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

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.

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

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

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