The US shows strong interest in a bilateral free trade deal during the second round of the Japan-US Economic Dialogue he...

Japan's Defense Ministry asks the US military to refrain from conducting flare drill flights above residential areas.

A traffic cop dies in western Japan while cracking down on a violation.

A group of drift drivers are arrested for using public roads as a circuit in Osaka.

The long-awaited move of Tokyo's famous Tsukiji fish market is to happen next fall.

A sake brewery in northern Japan gets down to business making this season's run of the age-old fermented beverage.

Ongoing volcanic activity prompts authorities to expand the no-entry zone around Mt. Shinmoe in southwestern Japan.

High-tech mausoleums and women-only graves are signs of changing approaches to death in Japan.

A woman employed at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department feigns being kidnapped on a visit to her hometown in centra...

Kobe steel CEO Hiroya Kawasaki apologizes for falsifying data and says that data for core steel products were also alter...