Japan's transport ministry reveals the results of the first tests of pedestrian-detecting automatic brakes.

Unesco adds 33 traditional festivals featuring parades and floats to its intangible cultural heritage list.

Mario Brothers are coming to Universal Studios in Japan and the US.

The media is shown the vacant Toyosu market nearly a month after it was supposed to replace Tokyo's famous Tsukiji whole...

A tea ceremony for the gods at a picturesque Shinto shrine and famous landmark draws crowds of people.

A slight majority of experts on a government panel on Imperial abdication support or conditionally support the abdicatio...

An American contractor is arrested on suspicion he slashed a woman at a US military base in Japan.

A Ferris wheel catches fire in western Japan but no one is injured.

A four-party review of three Tokyo Olympics venues keeps boat and swimming facilities but is unable to settle on a site ...

Japan's lower house passes a pension reform bill to stem rising expenditures.