A nearly 450-year-old event dazzles crowds in the snow country of northern Japan.

Heavy snow crushed a house, killing its 53-year-old resident in Fukushima, northern Japan.

People in a town on the Sea of Japan gorge themselves on rice in a rite that began among farmers when food was scarce.

Toshiba Corp. shares could be downgraded to the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange after it delays sell-off of ...

The operator of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will send a robot into the stricken No.2 reactor.

Japan will use a supercomputer to warn ships of choppy seas that can spark large and dangerous "rogue waves."

A woman in Hiroshima is arrested for running an investment fraud targeting elderly residents of her assisted living faci...

A man is arrested for impersonating an ex AKB48 idol.