All four giant pandas at a zoo in the western Japan town of Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, are set to be returned to China, ...

Three wire ropes hanging carp streamers over the Nade River in Kinokawa City, Wakayama Prefecture have been cut in an act of property damage, police said. According to police, at around 5:50 a.m. on ...

Fans of the four remaining giant pandas at Adventure World here and local businesses are bracing for their return to the ...

WAKAYAMA—Shuhei Kishimoto, the governor of Wakayama Prefecture, died of septic shock on April 15, a day after his secretary ...

Wakayama Prefecture Governor Shuhei Kishimoto died in Wakayama City on Tuesday morning. He was 68. Kishimoto was found collapsed at the governor's official residence by his secretary at around 10:15 a ...

Wakayama Gov. Shuhei Kishimoto died at a hospital in this western Japan city April 15 after being found unconscious the previous day. He w ...

Kishimoto is unconscious and in critical condition, and is being treated in an intensive care unit, sources said.

The governor died on Tuesday morning of septic shock at a hospital where he was receiving treatment after being found collapsed at home a day earlier.

It strikes me how bare I am here, without all the markers I usually carry – Canadian, Japanese, insider, outsider. None of it ...

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

Left almost unchanged for a century, Japan's current retrial system is often labelled the "Unopenable Door" because the chances of being granted a legal do-over are so slim. But hopes have grown ...