Police said Haruki Takeyama, a police officer at Kakamigahara Police Station, is accused of having sexual intercourse with the girl at a hotel in Ginan Town, Gifu Prefecture, on July 17 last year and ...

MIZUNAMI, Gifu Prefecture--Fossils uncovered here are thought to offer a key to resolving how seals and walruses went their separate ways in evolution. A lower jaw fossil of a pinniped was found ...

MINOKAMO, Gifu Prefecture—To solve a labor shortage and improve communication with its diverse patients, a hospital in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, has focused on hiring local residents with ...

Visitors to Universal Studios Japan (USJ)'s "Donkey Kong Country," which opened on Dec. 11, were visibly excited about the ...

A Cambodian woman who worked as a technical trainee at a strawberry farm north of Tokyo plans to file a damages suit against ...

A Japanese octogenarian, who had part of her ear bitten off when she was mauled by a pit bull on a street corner nearly two ...

It's her second time to be incarcerated. While she is locked up at Kasamatsu Prison in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, she received treatment for dementia, which has progressed so far that she can ...

Night - Clear. Winds from NW to NNW at 2 to 6 mph (3.2 to 9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 38 °F (3.3 °C). Sunny with a high of 63 °F (17.2 °C). Winds variable at 0 to 11 mph (0 to 17.7 kph ...

TSUKUBA, Japan -- Japanese researchers have succeeded in growing black truffles continuously at a site in Gifu prefecture, it was announced Thursday, marking a major step toward creating a reliable ...