A blue whale washes ashore in Japan for the first time ever.

Nearly 2,300 households are issued an evacuation order after a torrential rainfall hits northern Japan.

Hiroshima continues restoration one month after deadly rainfall.

Ambient temperatures around the nation become higher than body temperature.

Venomous fire ants are found at Narita International Airport on the outskirts of Tokyo.

Men take a portable shrine for a dip in a waterfall in an ancient summer rite in Akita Prefecture, northern Japan.

Typhoon Jongdari has slowed down but deadly heat wave continues to smother the nation.

A flood-hit university in Hiroshima restarts classes.

Japan vows to reduce its 47 tons of plutonium stockpile.

Typhoon Jongdari heads for Japan, threatening further damage to flood-ravaged regions in western Japan and disrupting a ...