A department store near Ueno Zoo in Tokyo starts selling a giant panda figure made of pure gold.

The Japanese government has announced today it has canceled evacuation drills to prepare for a potential North Korean mi...

A volcano in the Kirishima Mountain Range erupts violently in Southwestern Japan.

An apparent stray bullet found in a farm hut with a broken window in Okinawa, may have come from a nearby US military ba...

4 days after a M6.1 quake killed a 9-year-old girl in western Japan, kids are back at school.

The only nuclear plant in the greater Tokyo region has had its operational life extended 20 years.

Only about 3700 lodgings have registered under Japan's new so-called "minpaku" room sharing law.

Almost all elementary and junior high schools reopen in quake-affected northern Osaka three days after the magnitude 6.1...

Heavy rain pounds the Pacific coast of western Japan triggered by an active rain front.

Video from northern Japan shows the moment a bear was captured at a Shinto shrine.