Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling LDP and ally Komeito square off against Yurike Koike's newly formed Kibo no To (Party...

A poodle getting ready to go on an aircraft escapes from its cage and disrupts flight operations.

The snow plowing streetcar "Sasara" in Sapporo gets ready for winter.

Children and adults in Japan are enjoying an annual public holiday aimed to promote sports and active lifestyles.

Smartphone-linked eye aging is on the rise, but there's a new app designed to counteract the effects.

A Tokyo court orders leading advertising agency Dentsu to pay the maximum fine for illegal work practices implicated in ...

Princess Mako visits Ehime Prefecture for a national sports festival, taking in a town famous for towels and a small, en...

Dr. Rainer Weiss and colleagues take home the Nobel Prize in physics and acknowledge the contribution of Japanese scient...

The Party of Hope releases its political platform, pledging to freeze the consumption tax and phase out nuclear power.

Nobel prize winner in literature Kazuo Ishiguro speaks of his Japanese identity.