Japan is facing a strange but serious housing crisis. Nearly 9 million homes are lying vacant across the country.

Japan currently has around nine million empty homes. These are not unfinished projects or abandoned construction sites, but houses and apartments where nobody lives anymore.

The Hokkaido prefectural police arrested Tatsuya Suzuki, a 33-year-old employee of Asahiyama Zoo in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on suspicion of murdering his wife, Yui. He said he strangled her with a rope ...

A construction firm in Hokkaido pours efforts into restoring old Japanese-style houses. They're also dedicated to preserving the traditional methods used to build those homes that can last centuries.

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Four teenage boys were arrested in the killing of a woman at her home. The police say they might have been directed by a new ...

Video footage shows an individual wearing a costume jumping down into the enclosure, prompting the monkeys to rush to the top ...

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Two people were arrested this week after an individual entered an animal enclosure at Japan's Ichikawa Zoo that houses the ...

Scientists have found 1,121 previously unknown species, fast-tracking discovery and marking a 54% jump in annual identification.Discoveries from depths of up to 6,575m include a new species of deep-se ...