2 are dead and 1 missing after a barge and a boat pulling it sank off southwest Japan.

Personal info of 12,000 customers is leaked from major travel agency H.I.S.

Japan's Ministry of Defense will request a record $48.1b for FY2018.

Tokyo Electric starts freezing the last part of an ice wall surrounding the contaminated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant...

Japan's Imperial Couple joins an international meeting on optics technology.

Authorities lower the alert for the deadly Mt. Ontake volcano from 2 to 1.

Police in central Japan are investigating a landslide that buried a highway in waste materials and injured six people.

Official campaigning for the opposition Democratic Party's leadership race starts.

Prince Akishino and his daughter Princess Mako visit a pig farm in Hungary.

A man goes missing after rushing to help his 2-year-old son who dropped from a bridge in eastern Japan.