With almost $20m in damages to victims through April, celebrities join an anti-fraud campaign in Tokyo.

Police in central Japan subdue a wild Japanese serow that wandered into a populated area.

2000 people protest relocating the Futenma military base within Okinawa ahead of the 45th anniversary of America returni...

Kumamoto decorates train cars with fresh flowers in honor of Mother's Day, a tradition started 25 years ago.

2-month-old otter triplets at an aquarium in Fukui Prefecture are learning to swim and delighting visitors.

A university hospital in western Japan has introduced a so-called 'intelligent operating room' to improve surgery result...

A one-year-old girl in western Japan has become the nation's youngest to get a new pair of lungs from a brain-dead donor...

Tokyo will pay for temporary facilities for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games to be built outside the capital.

Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida does not think an immediate revision of the constitution is necessary.

Tokyo Electric Power Company hopes to resume operations at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant to revive its business.