An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 jolted Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Thursday, but there was no danger of a tsunami and no immediate report of injuries or major damage.

A magnitude-5.3 earthquake hit the northern city of Hakodate on Thursday, registering a lower 6 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7, the Meteorological Agency said.

Japan's weather bureau said on Friday there was a high possibility that a La Nina weather pattern would emerge during the country's summer, which runs from around June to August, and continue throu

Japanese scientists who discovered the atomic element 113 plan to name it “nihonium,” the Riken institute said Wednesday.

The agreement misses Japan’s National Diet session

FUKUSHIMA – In a survey that began in April 2014 to check the impact of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdowns, 30 children have so far been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and 27 others are suspected

The Government of Japan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will this morning launch the Jamaican component of the US$15-million Japan-Caribbean Climate Change Partnership (J-CCCP)

Having made a string of technology investments in India , Japanese telecom and Internet giant SoftBank has said its investments in the country will top $10 billion in 5-10 years.

The revised Act on Special Measures for Renewable Energy, which is for revising the feed-in tariff policy for renewable energy, passed through the plenary session of the House of Councilors last we