Mt. Fuji opens to climbers for the first time in two years.

More teams are arriving in Japan with only 22 days to go before the Olympics kick off.

Princess Kako attends a ceremony for children's books.

A private jet flies from Kagoshima in southwestern Japan to Tokyo's Haneda airport on biofuel made of euglena, a type of...

A shirtless man is arrested in Yokohama after using a steel pipe to try to fend off police officers.

Chugai Pharmaceutical has applied for approval to manufacture and sell an antibody cocktail therapy to treat COVID-19 in...

NTT Docomo shows off technologies the telecom firm has developed using 5G mobile networks.

Prized cherries grown in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, fetch up to 30,000 yen apiece in the season's first auction.

Okinawa Prefecture is hit by heavy downpours that have resulted in landslides, flooding and power outages.

A truck runs into children walking home from elementary school in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, killing two and injur...