Freelance journalist Junpei Yasuda comes back to Japan after being held captive by an armed militant group in Syria.

Deep in Japan's countryside, Nanto is seeing a surge in foreign residents. Nippon TV meets the historic town's new citiz...

Some 28 central government bodies improperly count 3,700 employees as workers with disabilities.

A special one-day Anpanman train run marks 30 years of the Seto-Ohashi Line across the Inland Sea.

Cash-loving Japan has been slow to accept alternative payments, but new government incentives and an impending sales tax...

2019 is the year of the boar, and craftsmen in central Japan are hard at work producing bamboo boar dolls.

Japan celebrates tennis champ Naomi Osaka with a new stamp and postcard set.

Virtual cashiers and submersible drones were just a few of the eye-catching wares on show at CEATEC, Japan's highest-pro...

Performers in white fox outfits defy gravity on bamboo poles towering 10 meters above ground at a shrine in southwestern...

Kids prowl the streets enacting Otsukimi Dorobo, a traditional Japanese version of Halloween.