Early ripening peaches have reached their harvest season in the city of Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture. These juicy, sweet-smelling peaches are a specia ...

Japan’s festivals “come in threes,” as this series shows. In this entry we introduce matsuri spanning Japan from north to south that feature brilliant lanterns shining against the nighttime sky.

Problems mainly in areas of Thessaly and northern Greece were caused yesterday by a wave of bad weather that will persist today.

Controlling the phase stability of ZrO2 nanoparticles is of major importance in the development of new ZrO2-based nanotechnologies. Because of the fact that in nanoparticles the surface accounts for a ...

TOKYO -- The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and the Ministry of the Environment have issued a "heatstroke alert" for Chiba, Ibaraki, Wakayama and Kagoshima prefectures, as well as wide areas of ...

News Up to 298,000 deaths & 20m tsunami predicted in potential ‘megaquake’, Japan govt warns The megaquake has an 80 per cent chance of occurring within 30 years.

The Japanese company has already committed to heavy investment in U.S. Steel and a U.S.-controlled board of directors at the American steelmaker.

Japan's agriculture ministry says that sales of stockpiled rice will widen to stores across the country on Friday.

Explosions were heard across Tehran, Natanz — home to one of Iran’s key nuclear sites — and other cities, according to local and social media.