
Japanese high schoolers win World Robot Olympiad
A group of high schoolers from Japan win this year's World Robot Olympiad.
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Tsutenkaku Tower welcomes year of the rooster
Osaka's Tsutenkaku Tower marks the handover from the year of the monkey to the year of the rooster.
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Rider stands up while driving
A video of someone standing up while driving a motorbike was posted on twitter.
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Japanese Government restarts Okinawa landfill work
The Japanese government restarts construction work to move a US Military base to Henoko, Okinawa Prefecture.
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Prime Minister Abe in Hawaii
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in Hawaii for the Pearl Harbor visit.
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Fukushima father finds daughter's remains
A man's search for the remains of his 7-year-old daughter ends as he learns that she died in the Great East Japan Earthq...
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Japan-US to limit immunity of base workers
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida says Japan and the U.S. agree in principle to narrow the scope of legal immunity...
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Post-blaze recovery as main street reopens
Itoigawa's main thoroughfare reopens and residents begin picking up the pieces of their lives five days after a blaze gu...
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'Tis the season...for giant rice cakes
A town in central Japan carries on a "big" tradition of making rice cakes to ring in an auspicious new year.
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Probe begins as firefighters snuff last flames
Firefighters snuff the last flames as a probe is launched into a massive blaze that consumed 150 buildings in Itoigawa, ...
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