Japanese government officials mull including electronic cigarettes in an upcoming law designed to cut down on second-han...

A kick-off ceremony is held for the first shipments of "Keio-Sakura" or winter cherry blossoms.

The new wholesale market to replace Tokyo's popular Tsukiji fish market will open October 11th, 2018.

Panda cub Xiang Xiang will get a $20m new home at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo.

2 more bodies are found under a boat believed to be from North Korea that washed up in Japan last week.

Japanese lunar probe Sorato leaves for India from where it will try to land on the moon and claim Google's XPRIZE.

Japan presents new research indicating a possible megaquake along the Kuril Trench off the country's northeast.

Japan will request a record roughly $46b defense budget next fiscal year.

The US military in Okinawa resumes CH-53E flights six days after one of the choppers dropped a window on an elementary s...

Giant panda cub Xiang Xiang is shown to the public at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo.