To pave the way for autonomous cars, a firm backed by Mitsubishi Electric and other investors will aim to map Japan's ro...

Nippon TV speaks with an Iraqi family reunited three years after their young daughter was kidnapped by the Islamic State...

Visitors flock to Ueno Zoo in Tokyo to view giant pandas a day after a baby cub was born.

A United Nations special rapporteur says press freedoms are threatened in Japan.

A traditional horse parade attracts shutter bugs in Iwate, northeast Japan.

Giant panda Shin Shin gives birth in Tokyo.

A plummeting population and potential lack of village assembly candidates prompts a village to mull abolishing its elect...

A black Densuke watermelon sells for 500,000 yen (more than 4,500 dollars) as the year's first auctions of the fruit are...

Locals in central Japan are using the internet to protect crops from marauding monkeys.

Smartphone owners for the first time make up more than 50 percent of people with cellphones in Japan.