Empress Michiko plays piano at a music festival with a horn player while getting a little rest to the north of Tokyo in ...

A fire festival stretching back centuries marks the end of summer for Japan's iconic peak.

Emperor and Empress visit Karuizawa, a summer resort north of Tokyo, where they met for the first time 61 years ago.

A park in Saitama, northeast of Tokyo, puts up notice boards after complaints of people digging up cicada larvae, possib...

Work to dismantle the throne to be used for Crown Prince Naruhito's enthronement is shown at a Kyoto palace.

Two typhoons bear down on Japan, threatening to bring high winds and torrential rains.

A museum in western Japan launches a cosplay event where people can pose like characters in their favorite paintings.

One thousand lantern-topped women in kimono mesmerize spectators with elegant dancing in Kumamoto Prefecture.

A Shinto priest in western Tokyo offers waterfall training, a form of traditional ascetic training for monks and priests...

Families in Nagasaki Prefecture send off the spirits of their beloved ones.