Home delivery giant Yamato Transport Co. is considering across the board price hikes for the first time in 27 years.

Japan's Cabinet approves a bill toughening sex crime laws for the first time in 110 years.

Tokyo expects a roughly 280-billion dollar windfall from hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.

Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike test-rides an eco-friendly fuel cell bus.

A town office in a small town near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant disaster reopens for the first time since ...

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko return home after a week visiting Vietnam and Thailand.

Japan Air Lines celebrates Girls' Festival with a special all-women flight.

The decommissioning process at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has just started.

A shopping arcade returns to central Minami-Sanriku, six years after the Great East Japan Earthquake.

An environment ministry worker is arrested for taking bribes for work to clean up areas hit by Japan's 2011 nuclear disa...