The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry will designate in advance local governments that will dispatch relief ...

An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale struck Hokkaido, Japan’s second largest island, on Sunday, the ...

Akihisa Nagashima, a special adviser to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, recently visited five Central Asian countries to pave the way for a summit with Japan, the government said Monday. Nagashima made ...

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