Japan will face challenges meeting climate goals while also easing cost-of-living pressures on its citizens, according to the ...

Future Kid Takara,” a new series set to air on NHK Educational TV, aims to empower children and encourage them to take action ...

November is just a few days away, but Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji remains snowless, marking the latest date without a snowcap since records began 130 years ago. The peaks of Japan’s highest mountain are ...

Whenever he’s home, 84-year-old Toshiaki Morioka carries an alarm device that measures temperature and humidity, which can summon emergency responders at the press of a button. He takes it to bed, to ...

Meteorologists and climate detectives are ramping up their focus on a relatively young but increasingly active field of science: finding human fingerprints in extreme weather events.

TOKYO, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Japan's government approved on Tuesday new targets to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions through 2040, alongside a revised energy plan and an updated industrial ...

Is there a new pandemic lingering over us? Is Japan at the brink of declaring a health epidemic? After the COVID-19 pandemic, this question has been looming over everyone for a while now. However, it ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Sunday successfully launched a climate change monitoring satellite on its mainstay H-2A rocket, which made its final flight before it is replaced by a new flagship model designed ...

This week, addressing the United Nations, President Donald Trump made several false claims about climate change, including that it didn’t actually exist. He called it “the greatest con job ever ...

When most people think about bear encounters, they likely thing about the wooded areas of the U.S. that are known for their bear populations, like Alaska. However, bears seem to be wandering out of ...

TOKYO, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The Japanese government said on Friday it had designated two sites off the coast of Akita and Fukuoka prefectures as "promising zones" for developing offshore wind farms. Sign ...