Families of Japanese abductees to North Korea call for UN action at a symposium in Geneva.

 Children in Takayama carve sculptures from vegetables for a thanksgiving festival.

 Japanese regulators endorse safety upgrades at the Sendai nuclear station in southwestern Japan, paving the way for the...

 Twenty men with shiny bald heads gather to celebrate the harvest moon.

 Japanese fans celebrated Kei Nishikori’s historic US Open achievements, despite his loss in yesterday’s final.

 Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe says the dengue outbreak around Olympic facilities must be beaten.

 School is back in session in Hiroshima after a landslide killed more than 70 people.

Japan’s youthful new Industry Minister Yuko Obuchi makes first visit to the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. 

 A new NTV survey shows Japanese like the increase in female Cabinet members.

 Dengue fever may have spread within and beyond Tokyo as the number of people that have contracted the illness reached 6...