A curious bear is captured inside a warehouse in Kanazawa, central Japan.

As parliament debates reforming Japan's work culture, a 28-year-old systems developer in Tokyo is recognized as having d...

Empress Michko attends the Japan Red Cross Society's Annual Meeting, her last before Emperor Akihito abdicates next year...

Japan's government green lights Osaka University scientists to treat human heart disease with iPS cells, the first of it...

Japan issues its foreign policy bluebook for this fiscal year, terming N.Korea an "urgent threat."

Police conduct a large-scale drill at a new facility built to simulate disasters like Japan's 2011 quake and tsunami.

Records are found on forced sterilizations of 10 disabled women conducted under a lapsed eugenics law.

Takeshi Onaga, governor of Okinawa known for fighting to move US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma out of his prefecture,...

Finance Minister Taro Aso apologizes for former Vice Finance Minister Junichi Fukuda's sexually harassing female journal...

A giant carp streamer is on display for boy's day in the mountains of central Japan.