A castle in the sky in Ono, Fukui Prefecture, enchants spectators.

Osaka Prefectural Police plan to take disciplinary action against a police station in Osaka after an inmate's escape rev...

Freelance journalist Junpei Yasuda comes back to Japan after being held captive by an armed militant group in Syria.

Junpei Yasuda, a freelance journalist held by an armed group in Syria for more than three years, is freed in Turkey.

Anxiety spikes as another maker admits to falsifying quake damper data in earthquake-prone Japan.

Deep in Japan's countryside, Nanto is seeing a surge in foreign residents. Nippon TV meets the historic town's new citiz...