Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to explain what he calls Japan’s proactive pacifism in a speech to the United Nations Gener...

 Dengue fever is believed to have spread to another famous park in central Tokyo.

 A team of Japanese researchers receives an Ig Nobel prize for showing that a banana peel is six times more slippery tha...

 Apple’s new iPhone launches in Japan to long lines of eager customers.

The nuclear accident of March 2011 left countless children traumatized as entire families fled their homes. As they grow...

 A new volcanic island in the Pacific is engulfing its neighbor.

 VR headsets draw crowds as the Tokyo Game Show gets underway in Makuhari.

 The last person missing in a Hiroshima landslide that claimed 74 lives has been found.

 The IWC votes to adopt a stricter approach to issuing whaling permits as Japan vows to file a new scientific whaling pl...

 Japanese farmers in Kumamoto harvest ripe mikan tangerines.