Tokyo taxi fares rise for the first time in about 15 years due to surges in fuel costs and drops in the number of passen...

Tokyo's Roppongi Hills area is adorned with winter illuminations, with the lighting ceremony held for the first time in ...

A castle in the sky awes tourists in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan.

A total lunar eclipse and an eclipse of Uranus are seen from Japan on November 8, the first time in 442 years for such o...

A snow crab fetches 1 million yen in the season's first auction held in western Japan.

Tokyo Disney Resort celebrates Christmas for the first time in three years.

A "daimyo" feudal lord procession is reenacted in Hakone, a hot spring resort in Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo...

The rebuilding of Shuri Castle's main hall begins three years after a fire destroyed the structure in Okinawa Prefecture...

A vending machine for deer snacks is set up at Nara Park in western Japan to help prevent people from giving wild deer o...

The twin giant panda cubs at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo nibble on pieces of carrots but are not yet able to eat them.