Miyagi Governor Yoshihiro Murai helps pave the way for a woman in her 70s, forced to undergo sterilization as a teenager...

A wild boar injures two people in their seventies in Niihama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan.

A court in Thailand gives a Japanese custody of 13 children born to surrogate mothers in the country.

The government plans to make Emperor Akihito's abdication ritual a state event and hold a separate ceremony to commemora...

People in western Japan ring in the spring by torching grasslands to make way for new growth.

An ancient festival returns to a town in Fukushima Prefecture for the first since disaster struck nearly seven years ago...

Innovative solutions for aging infrastructure are emerging from Fukui, central Japan.

Men brave subfreezing cold at an ancient naked festival at an shrine in northern Japan seeking a good harvest and safe h...

Residents of a town in northern Japan go head to head with 8-meter-long bamboo poles in an ancient rite.

The government proposes reappointing Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda for a second term.