A court on Monday sentenced a man to one year in prison, suspended for three years, for abusing rabbits on an island in western Japan. Riku Hotta, 25, killed or injured seven rabbits on Okuno Island, ...

Japan’s securities industry group is urging brokerages to tighten identification requirements for client accounts following a spate of hacking incidents that led to unauthorized stock trading.

Japan’s 30-year bonds rallied on Wednesday as volatility eased in the US Treasuries market and central bank Governor Kazuo Ueda suggested a policy response to higher US tariffs. The yield on the ...

a book written in 720 - it's one of the oldest official recordings of Japan. It states that about 2000 years ago a princess escaped here to avoid a marriage and so the island got its name ...

Residents’ fears are growing on Ishigakijima island in southwestern Japan that the government’s widening defense plan to protect the nation will put them in the line of fire. It has been one ...

The Maritime Self-Defense Force has a base on Iwoto, but otherwise the island is uninhabited. Information on the latest cherry blossom conditions. (The page is in Japanese. Please right click to ...

The government, in consultation with the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and the Bar Association (BASL), has put in place a... Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning ...

The project company for the construction of a bulk cargo terminal in the Murmansk seaport has come under state control. MT Tuloma LLC (Tuloma Marine Terminal) became 99.99% owned by the nationalized ...

On a hot night at the end of March, a long line of customers stretched outside the door of Mount Desert Island Ice Cream ... and two in Japan. On my visit, I decided to go with Pretzel Terminal, the ...