Former prosecutor Nobuo Gohara says the main reason Carlos Ghosn fled Japan was the delay in his trial.

Studio 1 at Kyoto Animation is being torn down after a deadly arson fire in July destroyed the building and killed 36.

Japanese police arrest a Vietnamese man for giving haircuts to compatriots without a beautician license.

A conveyor belt sushi shop targeting foreigners opens in Tokyo.

The capital of Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido receives the largest amount of snowfall this winter.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asks Cabinet ministers to strengthen countermeasures against a new coronavirus.

Tsukuba Botanical Garden produces a 2-meter tall corpse flower, titan arum, that gives off a foul odor.

A giant Olympic emblem is pulled across Tokyo Bay on a barge before being installed on an island there.

A 120 cm "living fossil" frilled shark is captured off the coast of Wakayama Prefecture in Japan, but dies in captivity ...

The Japan Self-Defense Forces' only parachute unit undergoes tough training to defend the island nation. Unsung heroes p...