New bakeries are opening in Tokyo, keeping the industry thriving amid soaring wheat prices.

Six luxury pears fetch a record 170,000 yen in the season's first auction in central Japan.

At Tateyama Port west of Tokyo, some reports of dolphin sightings are made by fisherman from the shore.

All Nippon Airways is set to launch a semi-low-cost carrier.

Spirit boats wind through Nagasaki in southwestern Japan to honor the spirits of ancestors.

Members of the popular Japanese idol group Nogizaka 46 read in-train announcements for bullet trains.

Around 10,000 fireworks mark the end of the famed Aomori Nebuta Festival in northeastern Japan.

Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science raises 100 million yen in crowdfunding in nine hours.

A festival featuring the reenactment of samurai battles on horseback takes place in Fukushima Prefecture.

The Sumida River Fireworks Festival is held in Tokyo following a three-year hiatus, with more than 1 million spectators ...