A panel considering how Japan's emperor could abdicate summarizes its main points of debate.

Japan's government is taking President Donald Trump's inauguration speech in stride.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he believes President Donald Trump to be trustworthy and that he will seek his understand...

The Japanese Communist Party relaxes decades-old hard-line policies in an effort to cooperate with opposition Democrats ...

Suicides in Japan dropped below 22,000 for the first time in 22 years last year.

A paraglider with muscular dystrophy is inspiring folks in Japan.

On the coldest day of the Japanese calendar, monkeys at a zoo in southwestern Japan get a special treat.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stresses the Japan-US alliance as the cornerstone of diplomatic and national security policies...

Education Ministry bureaucrats are disciplined over a revolving door scandal.

Japan's top spokesman says a new Apple R&D center in Yokohama will be a trigger for foreign investment in the country.