Families in Nagasaki Prefecture send off the spirits of their beloved ones.

A traditional fire festival in Fukushima resumes for the first time since the 2011 disaster.

The number of rubella infections in Japan has doubled compared with last year.

Heavy rain pounds northern Japan.

At a Tokyo University lab, a professor is researching the possibilities of bioybrids for use in regenerative medicine.

Japan Meteorological Agency issues a level 4 volcanic eruption warning for Kuchinoerabu Island.

Emperor Akihito speaks to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the end of WWII, the last such ceremony before he abdicate...

One of Japan's three major summer obon dance festivals, the all-night Gujo odori, kicks off in Gujo, central Japan.

Vacationers crowd roads, trains and airports as people return from summer holidays.

The year's 15th typhoon is forecast to land on Japan's southernmost main island Kyushu Wednesday morning.