Panda cub Xiang Xiang will get a $20m new home at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo.

2 more bodies are found under a boat believed to be from North Korea that washed up in Japan last week.

Japanese lunar probe Sorato leaves for India from where it will try to land on the moon and claim Google's XPRIZE.

Japan presents new research indicating a possible megaquake along the Kuril Trench off the country's northeast.

Japan will request a record roughly $46b defense budget next fiscal year.