The US military resumes flights of Harrier fighter jets in Okinawa following a crash off the prefecture last month.

After winning a Nobel Prize, biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi shares details of his personal life and research.

Japan's Fujitsu is in final talks for China's Lenovo to take control of its PC business.

Taro Okamoto's beloved artwork Tower of the Sun in Osaka is to have an extensive renovation.

Japan will require all new quiet electric and hybrid cars to have noise-making devices by 2018.

The Sendai nuclear reactor no. 1 in Kagoshima Prefecture undergoes its first periodic inspection under post-Fukushima re...

39 people are stranded in central Japan in the wake of Typhoon Chaba.

Typhoon Chaba spawned gusts powerful enough to topple cars in western Japan on Wednesday.

Officials considering who will pay to decommission Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant meet for the first t...

Japan's nuclear regulators give the nod to safety measures at an aging nuclear reactor, paving the way for it to receive...