Japan's Nobel Prize winner Tasuku Honjo expresses joy over the award at a press conference with his wife Shigeko.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reshuffles his cabinet after his reelection as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Part...

A tempura shop in Tokyo goes cashless as Japan's restaurant chains deal with a labor shortage.

Japan's government is grappling with how to dispose of tainted water left over from cooling the meltdown-hit reactors at...

This year's Nobel prize in physiology or medicine goes to Japan's Tasuku Honjo and the US's James Allison for research i...

Newly elected Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki reiterates his stance against the relocation of a U.S. base within the prefe...

Typhoon Trami topples trees and disrupts life in and around Tokyo.

Typhoon Trami claims two lives and leaves a 67-year-old woman missing.

The U.S. military officially deploys five controversial Osprey aircraft to the Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo.

A monkey park in southwest Japan faces a serious problem--its monkeys have disappeared.