Tottori Prefecture residents struggle with record snow that is disrupting their lives and paralyzing transport.

Heavy snow blankets western Japan, and meteorologists warn of possible record accumulations this weekend.

Japan's government says a major earthquake could strike Tokyo, daytime population 16 million, at any time. This week, th...

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike sends the 2020 Olympic flag on a tour of areas hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disast...

Blowfish are dedicated to Ise Shrine on the 'Day of Fugu,' February 9th.

Snow falls in Tokyo and neighboring Ibaraki Prefecture, with the coldest front yet this winter approaching.

Japan's Defense Ministry starts dropping concrete blocks into the sea to prevent the spread of murky seawater at a locat...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he and Russian President Vladimir Putin are determined to end the territorial di...

Experts are conducting more water tests at the contaminated Toyosu market, the site where the famous Tsukiji fish market...

Scientists in Kyoto will proceed with the world's first retinal transplants using cells grown from donor iPS stem cells....