Nippon TV peers inside the no-go zone of a volcano in central Japan.

Power trouble on the Tokyo subway affects more than 120,000 commuters Wednesday morning.

Exactly 40 years since 13-year-old Megumi Yokota was abducted by North Korea, her parents still hope to see her again.

In Manila, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe calls for maximum pressure on North Korea.

Workers in southwest Japan are busy making dried mullet roe, a pricey specialty once favored by shoguns.

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike quits as co-leader of the conservative opposition "Party of Hope."

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang vow to better ties in Manila.

The odds are increasing that a geologic age may be dubbed "Chibanian" and named after a place in Japan for the first tim...

Tokyo's celebrity giant panda cub Xiang Xiang is expected to go on display to the public around December 19.

For a limited time, children get to experience the, er, wonder of being a tax office worker at an amusement facility in ...