Nearly all of Japan’s 21,000 soldiers on island killed during the fight, while the US side saw more than 6,800 fatalities.

With thousands of product prices rising, the cost of raising a child is becoming an impossible burden for some young Japanese ...

(Kyodo) KUSHIRO, Japan (Kyodo) -- Seeing vacant buildings ... with many buildings abandoned and left to go to seed due to a lack of funds for their demolition. In the city's restaurant district ...

A scarcity of rice is causing discontent among farmers and consumers in Japan and drawing attention to a policy some say has ...

TOKYO >> On an island off the coast of Nagasaki, ruins that seem on the verge of collapse stand clustered behind a high ...

In addition to being a blight on the landscape, there is also concern in the case of Kushiro that abandoned buildings could pose an added danger in the event of a major earthquake and tsunami hitting ...

In a heart-wrenching reflection of Japan’s escalating social issues, a Tokyo hospital has become ... at least partly to blame for babies being abandoned, according to Yoko Tsukamoto, a professor ...