The Imperial Household Agency says the silk cultivation tradition will be handed from Empress Michiko to Crown Princess ...

Major convenience store 7-Eleven announces a new online service to begin in July.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe congratulates President Donald Trump on the release of three Americans held by North Korea.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang meets Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.

People in northern Japan get a surprise when they find a road covered in fish.

Japan's banks may soon be closing on weekdays amid a lack of customers in the countryside.

Finance Ministry officials get their first sexual harassment prevention lecture following a sexual misconduct scandal in...

The leaders of Japan, China and South Korea call for denuclearizing the Korean peninsula but fall short of details.

Pharmaceutical giant Takeda will acquire Europe's Shire for about 62-billion dollars.

Leaders of Japan, China and South Korea will discuss North Korean denuclearization in Tokyo on Wednesday.