Japan's minister of reconstruction of areas hit by the 2011 earthquake will resign after he said it was good the disaste...

The Japanese government begins construction of seawalls at a U.S. base in Okinawa Prefecture.

Japan's major package delivery firm Yamato Transport will raise its delivery fees by up to 20 percent.

US paratrooper exercises over mainland Okinawa infuriate residents of the prefecture in southwestern Japan.

The Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatic flight team takes to the skies over Kumamoto in a bid to bring a lit...

Local officials in Japan get a lesson in how to drill residents to be ready for a North Korean missile.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes an offering but foregoes a visit to Yasukuni Shrine, skirting diplomatic controversy wit...

A sacred Shinto shrine in northern Japan is destroyed from a direct hit by a toppled tree.

The plush new Ginza Six mall opens in the Japanese capital's top shopping destination.

A man is robbed of 384 million yen in broad daylight in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan.