Engineers at Toyama University have created a robot that can shake your hand naturally.

Japan issues a map showing expanded territorial waters around Nishi-no-Shima, an active volcanic island in the Pacific.

Mt. Nantai at famous sightseeing spot Nikko north of Tokyo is reclassified as an active volcano.

Babies can avoid egg allergies later in life by starting to eat eggs gradually from the age of six months, according to...

A new underwater robot will try to survey melted fuel at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.

To pave the way for autonomous cars, a firm backed by Mitsubishi Electric and other investors will aim to map Japan's ro...

Smartphone owners for the first time make up more than 50 percent of people with cellphones in Japan.

It's been learned Japan's nuclear regulator hadn't checked the fuel container that ruptured and irradiated workers once ...

Five workers were exposed to high levels of radiation when nuclear fuel powder spilled at a research lab in Ibaraki Pref...

Another of Japan's nuclear reactors is restarted, bringing to 5 the total number in operation.