With summer set to start in full, an initiative to grow vines such as bitter melon and morning glory to gain cooling effects ...

The more Yoriko Kitagawa learns of a massive data centre to be built near her home in Hino on the outskirts of Tokyo, the ...

This article is part of our ​“Chart of the Week” series . The global nuclear energy industry has been muted since 2011, when the Fukushima Daiichi disaster unfolded in Japan.

A popular princess drives support for having a female Japanese Emperor. But the country's first female prime minister opposes ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency issued record-breaking short-term heavy rain information in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, which the agency determined to have received about 100 millimeters of rain in the ...

An increasing number of Japanese professional baseball teams and players are launching fundraising campaigns to support people affected by last month’s major earthquakes in Venezuela.

Recent climate change and urbanisation have increased the risk of more severe disasters. In particular, the Indo-Pacific is ...

The sleep town of Anare’s 4,000 or so residents felt the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude tremors last month, but their hillside homes ...

More than 500 Rohingya refugees are feared dead after two boats capsized off Myanmar. Here's why conflict and worsening camp ...

The former CEO of the management company that runs Italy's roadways was sentenced to 12 years in prison for a 2018 bridge ...

Chinese authorities evacuated more than 1.7 million people as of Saturday and issued high alerts as eastern China braced for ...