Business confidence improves at large manufacturers in March on the back of economic recovery.

Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida says Ambassador Yasumasa Nagamine will be dispatched to Seoul after he was recall...

Cherry blossoms officially reach full bloom in Tokyo and elsewhere after taking their own sweet time to do so.

A craftsman in northern Japan is creating custom lamps from hyotan gourds.

An off season snowstorm strands about 600 people at New Chitose airport in northern Japan.

People in western Japan join an obstacle race with heavy shopping bicycles called "mama chari" or "mama bikes."

Convenience store Seven-Eleven will set up lockers where customers can pick up packages delivered by Yamato Transport.

The unemployment rate in Japan falls to the lowest level in about 22 years.

The Japanese government has lifted evacuation orders in some parts of Fukushima near the nuclear power plant.

Japanese work culture is synonymous with armies of office workers in dark suits doing endless overtime. Politicians and ...