Bladesmiths in central Japan show visitors the traditional method for making Japanese swords.

People in Kyoto reenact an ancient type of Japanese football that was played by nobles centuries ago.

People scramble to grab pieces of "sacred" paper from a demon at a Shinto shrine in southwestern Japan.

Men from around Japan take part in a race at Nishinomiya Shrine in a bid to become this year's "Lucky Man.

Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic athletes will sleep in beds made of cardboard.

Tokyo Disneyland starts a new parade featuring Minnie Mouse.

Japanese justice minister Masako Mori responds to former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn's criticisms of her country's justice s...

Some 1,800 pigs at a farm in Okinawa Prefecture will be culled after hog cholera infection is confirmed there for the fi...

The first hearing on the 2016 mass stabbing at a care home near Tokyo is held, with the defendant admitting to the charg...

The details of how former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn escaped from Japan in violation of his bail.