In its monthly economic report, Japan's government upgrades its assessment of the economy for the first time since March...

The world's largest rodents mark the winter solstice in central Japan with a seasonal bath scented with yuzu citrus frui...

Japan's government scraps its troubled Monju fast-breeder prototype nuclear reactor, but plans to build a similar reacto...

Japan's space agency launches the Epsilon-2 rocket into space with a radiation probe aboard.

Self Defense Force troopers clean the world heritage Himeji Castle ahead of 2017.

Japan's government will directly fund work to decontaminate areas around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, reversin...

Japan's Supreme Court rejects Okinawa's appeal over relocating a US military base in the southern Japanese prefecture.

Two Japanese swordsmiths labor to revive the long-lost, 600-year-old Hotarumaru sword.

Telecommunications firm KDDI Corp. says it is developing a system to control multiple drones and plans to bring it to ma...

Toyota Motor Corp. shows off a new taxi as it looks to capitalize on the flood of tourists expected in the run-up to the...