Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture erupts for the first time in 36 years but officials say chances for a mudslide to occur...

A center where cancer patients and their families can receive social and emotional support opens up in Tokyo.

Sales of Thai tuktuks are booming in central Japan.

Police arrest a 27-year-old Englishman after a bomb scare rattled people in Shibuya, downtown Tokyo Friday afternoon.

Portable shrines clashed in the climax of an autumn festival in Matsuyama, western Japan.

The season's first snowfall dusts Wakkanai, northern Hokkaido.

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.