August 15th in Japan marks the anniversary of the end of World War Two. On this occasion, we bring you a report on a...

People in northern Japan don’t do things in half-measures. When they built lantern floats for a recent summer festiv...

Locals were hamming it up at an annual pig rodeo held yesterday in western Japan.Pig farming is a major industry in ...

Protestors in Okinawa faced off with the Coast Guard as the government started work on Thursday on the controversial...

Children in Tokyo got a close-up experience dealing with the police.The Metropolitan Police Department held a specia...

Japan’s economy took a dive during the second quarter of this year, recording its worst performance since the disast...

Japan’s midsummer vacation - known as "obon" - is underway, with millions of people heading either back to their hom...

 Even back-to-back typhoons couldn’t keep people off the streets in western Japan.The traditional Awa Odori dance fe...

August is a time when many children head to the beach. But a group of kids in Japan are using their summer vacation ...

 Families of the victims of the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history visited the crash site today.On August...