The media is shown the vacant Toyosu market nearly a month after it was supposed to replace Tokyo's famous Tsukiji whole...

A tea ceremony for the gods at a picturesque Shinto shrine and famous landmark draws crowds of people.

A slight majority of experts on a government panel on Imperial abdication support or conditionally support the abdicatio...

An American contractor is arrested on suspicion he slashed a woman at a US military base in Japan.

A Ferris wheel catches fire in western Japan but no one is injured.

A four-party review of three Tokyo Olympics venues keeps boat and swimming facilities but is unable to settle on a site ...

Japan's lower house passes a pension reform bill to stem rising expenditures.

Two outbreaks of virulent avian flu in northern Japan force local governments to kill birds to stop the virus from sprea...

Japan's ruling coalition decides to extend the extra Diet session for two weeks.

The price tag for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is expected to top 20 trillion yen (179 billion dollars), nearl...