Japan protests to South Korea over a flag showing a unified Korea that includes Japan's Takeshima islands.

Sumo champs celebrate an annual spring festival at a Buddhist temple near Narita Airport on the outskirts of Tokyo.

A Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter crashes in a residential area in southwestern Japan.

Laver seaweed is shipped from Fukushima Prefecture for the first time since the 2011 nuclear disaster.

Snow blankets the Sea of Japan side of the Japanese archipelago.

A candidate backed by Japan's ruling coalition beats the incumbent in the Nago mayoral election.

A fur seal with a plastic cord stuck around its neck is found on a beach in Aomori Prefecture.

More snow and icy roads are disrupting life in metro Tokyo.

This winter's flu epidemic is the worst in Japan since record-keeping began.

Shizuoka University researcher Toshinobu Tokumoto and his team breed a transparent goldfish to observe the inner working...