Only nine of Japan’s 47 prefectures have had population increases since 2015, a demographic trend that will lead to a significant reapportionment of Lower House seats, according to preliminary ...

A strong cold air mass intensified relentless snowfall on Friday in parts of Japan, including prefectures of Fukushima, Hokkaido and Niigata, grappling people with blizzards and resulting in road ...

In a district of Toyama, 16cm was recorded while 12cm was observed in Tomakomai on Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido. The ...

The number of suicides decreased in 38 of Japan’s 47 prefectures. The prefecture with the highest suicide rate was Iwate with 22.9, followed by Yamanashi, at 21.9, and Niigata, at 21.2. The ...

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Ministry officials instructed all 47 prefectures to have poultry farms ... avian flu cases confirmed so far have occurred in western Japan. But the avian flu virus was found earlier in the feces ...

Police in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, have re-arrested a 35-year-old woman and her 47-year-old boyfriend on suspicion of threatening her elementary school-age son by saying they would "gouge out his ...