Traditional New Year rites are held ranging from purification rite with piercing cold water and loincloths to student ca...

Bus guides celebrate coming of age ahead of the official Coming-of-Age Day next week.

Crown Princess Masako will attend an Imperial event featuring lectures from top scholars for the first time in 15 years....

A bluefin tuna fetches more than $320,000 at the final New Year auction at Tokyo' s hallowed Tsukiji market.

Skilled artisans have been making Ushikubi silk from double cocoons for hundreds of years near Mt. Hakusan in central Ja...

Japan will issue new currency to commemorate the Crown Prince's coronation as Emperor.