The UN Security Council is expected this month to hold its first open meeting on North Korea's human rights situation since 2017.

A severe tropical storm is expected to approach Japan's Ogasawara Islands in the Pacific Ocean later this week and the country's main island of Honshu next week.

Wednesday marks 78 years since an atomic bomb was detonated over Nagasaki in World War Two, killing tens of thousands of people.

Japanese airline companies say domestic flight bookings during the upcoming Bon summer holiday period have recovered to about 90 percent of the pre-pandemic levels.

The 71st Oza Tournament challenger-deciding game began on April 4 at the Kansai Shogi Kaikan in Fukushima-ku, Osaka City, where Sota Fujii 7-kan (21), a Shogi player (Kisei, Ryuoh, Meijin, Oza, Eio, Kio, Osho) will play against Masayuki Toyoshima 9-dan (33).

Japanese police are to consider introducing tougher penalties for cyclists who recklessly violate traffic rules.

The rabbit has been carefully raised for four years and was posted on the YouTube channel "Kogarana Ampa's Bunny Ham Ch. The video has over 710,000 views at the time of writing and has garnered over 7,400 high ratings.

Workers in a town in Japan's northernmost prefecture Hokkaido are busy drying scallop muscles, which are prized as a high-end delicacy.

Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke was reportedly served a fresh arrest warrant on Tuesday on suspicion of assisting his father's suicide.

At around 5:45 a.m. on April 14, a female employee of Shiso General Hospital in Shiso City, Hyogo Prefecture, discovered a hospitalized woman in her 80s bleeding and lying on the roof of the hospital's first-floor entrance, and called the Shiso Police Department.

Japan's Defense Ministry is looking into the possibility that the missile launched by North Korea on Wednesday may have been a new type of solid-fuel missile.

Japanese businesses are lending a hand to municipalities in the transition to electric vehicles, launching new services that help local governments replace their official-use cars with EVs.