Tokyo Electric Power Company sends a robot into Fukushima's reactor unit No. 1 to locate melted nuclear fuel.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met King Salman of Saudi Arabia today in Tokyo. It's the first visit by a Saudi king in 46 ye...

High in the mountains of northern Japan, spring snow clearing has begun.

Embattled Toshiba is expected to delay its earnings report...yet again.

Tokyo sets about to accomplish an Olympic feat: pleasing the palates of participants at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Para...

A third-party investigative panel reports that online information site operator DeNA posted more than 740,000 items of c...

Japan commemorates the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.

A master craftsman reveals the secrets of the sacred drums called mokugyo.

The Parliamentary Secretary for Disaster Management Affairs resigns after joking about rain boots in connection with a p...

Japan announces the withdrawal of its peacekeeping mission from South Sudan by the end of May.