Japan and the EU ink an economic partnership agreement.

Reporters in Tokyo tour facilities being built for the 2020 Olympics.

Scorching heat continues as a summer high pressure system covers the Japanese archipelago.

The mayor of Osaka touts his city's bid to host Expo 2025 at the UN.

Schools reopen while the search for missing people continues in rain- ravaged western Japan.

On Ocean Day, beaches remain closed in rain-hit Hiroshima Prefecture.

A new virtual reality project aims to give people worldwide the experience of making sushi.

Tokai village holds a major nuclear evacuation drill on the scenario of a nuclear plant accident.

Weather officials are advising people to take precautions against heatstroke as temperatures remained high across Japan.

A citrus fruit farmer from western Japan tackles the world's most grueling foot race in the Sahara Desert wearing wooden...