Fall brings red spider lilies into full bloom by Lake Shiga in central Japan.

Thirty-seven years since Megumi Yokota was kidnapped by North Korean agents, her classmates held a charity concert.

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.