Evacuees temporarily return home in landslide-affected Atami City.

The Japan Meteorological Agency strongly urges people to evacuate after heavy rain lashes neighboring Shimane and Tottor...

Mt. Fuji opens to climbers for the first time in two years.

Zookeepers in Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, unveil a crocodile that measures more than 5 meters in length.

The Japanese government releases a three-dimensional hazard map that predicts what might happen if the Arakawa River, wh...

A camera captures houses collapsing in a residential area in Osaka.

Japanese Emperor Emeritus Akihito finds two new goby fish species.

Hunters shoot and kill an Asian black bear after it appears in a residential area in Northern Japan.

Fishermen in central Japan begin their seasonal cormorant fishing in the Nagara River six weeks later than usual due to ...

A wild bear attacks people in residential areas of Sapporo, northern Japan, injuring four before authorities kill the an...