A 43-year-old woman in Osaka admits releasing four raccoons into the wild after keeping them illegally.

Tourist hotspot Senso-ji Temple is looking to raise rents on one Tokyo's oldest shopping streets roughly 16-fold.

Norishige Kanai will take a spherical assistant drone to the International Space Station.

Singer-songwriter Pikotaro will join US President Donald Trump at a banquet when he visits Japan next month.

In an annual rite, a town at the foot of Mt. Fuji "officially" declares Japan's highest peak capped with snow.

A pair of persimmons sell for a record $4,750 (540,000 yen) at the season's first auction in central Japan.

Fashion designer Junko Koshino is among those selected as the winners of this year's Japanese culture honors.

Sagami Railway says a lightning may have struck its train.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party coalition takes 312 seats in the 48th Lower House election.

Japan's Empress Michiko turns 83, noting this year may be the last the Imperial Couple travels in an official capacity.