Toyota Motor shuts down part of its plant operations in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, as two of its workers have test...

Princess Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, graduates from Gakushuin Girls' Senior High School...

A memorial ceremony takes place at a Tokyo subway station where one of the deadly sarin gas attacks by a doomsday cult o...

The Olympic flame for the 2020 Tokyo Games arrives by charter plane in Miyagi Prefecture, one of the areas devastated in...

A Japanese government panel of experts recommends a set of measures aimed at containing the spread of the new coronaviru...

9 years after an earthquake and tsunami caused nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, TEPCO has 1 mil...

The number of foreign visitors to Japan in February dropped nearly 60 percent from the year before, as the novel coronav...

A state-of-the-art Aegis destroyer is commissioned in Japan, equipped for the first time with a system that can share wi...

Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko move out of their long-time residence at the Imperial Palace in Tok...

A special plane that will carry the Olympic flame to Japan for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics arrives in Athens.