A sacred Shinto shrine in northern Japan is destroyed from a direct hit by a toppled tree.

Japan posts a $36.7b trade surplus in fiscal 2016, its first in six years.

The plush new Ginza Six mall opens in the Japanese capital's top shopping destination.

A man is robbed of 384 million yen in broad daylight in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan.

A record-high 1,736 minors fall victim to crimes using social media in Japan last year.

Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso says a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal without the U.S. will be discussed in May.

A Japanese woman left in North Korea in the chaos after World War Two met the press today.

The first batch of Japan's Ground Self Defense Force personnel returns from South Sudan in connection with Japan's withd...

Vice President Mike Pence says the US will defend Japan as an ally during his visit to a US naval base in Yokosuka south...

Whales sighted in busy Tokyo Bay are finally caught on camera.