Japanese Crown Princess Kiko celebrates her 54th birthday and says she hopes to explore new communication methods amid t...

The Japanese capital could be exposed to severe flooding if heavy rainfall led the Arakawa River to break its banks. Aut...

Officials of Tokyo's Shibuya Ward have decided to ask people not to visit the iconic Scramble Crossing to celebrate Hall...

U.N. chief Antonio Guterres says he hopes to visit Hiroshima in 2021 to attend the annual commemoration of the 1945 atom...

An unidentified unmanned aerial vehicle is found on the shores of Taketomi, a small island in Okinawa Prefecture, southw...

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca pauses clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine in Japan in step with the latest dev...

A mask specialty store in Tokyo sells a Swarovski-clad mask for 100,000 yen.

Officials continue searching for four missing locals in Miyazaki Prefecture after Typhoon Haishen passed near the area.

Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens unveils a new enclosure for giant pandas.

Officials report one death and dozens of injuries in southwestern and western Japan after Typhoon Haishen passed to the ...