A pair of luxury persimmons fetches a whopping $4800 at the first auction of the season.

Okinawa's assembly passes a bill to hold a referendum on land reclamation for a new US base.

Japan's Princess Ayako, the third daughter of late Prince Takamado, visits the Imperial Palace and bids farewell to the...

Japan produces more plastic garbage than it can process domestically, so some ends up as microplastics in the country's ...

Tohoku Electric announces its aging Onagawa No.1 reactor is to be decommissioned.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets China's leaders in Beijing to mark 40 years of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship.

A pod of dolphins swim just off the Japan Sea coast.

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.