Japan's Princess Kako will study abroad at England's Leeds University.

Toshiba announces plans to spin off four of its core business divisions from the parent company to help it regain its fi...

US paratrooper exercises over mainland Okinawa infuriate residents of the prefecture in southwestern Japan.

The Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatic flight team takes to the skies over Kumamoto in a bid to bring a lit...

Local officials in Japan get a lesson in how to drill residents to be ready for a North Korean missile.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike says she's honored Time listed her as one of the world's 100 most influential people, but re...

Visitors are flocking to Tonami in central Japan for a tulip festival featuring 3 million of the colorful flowers.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes an offering but foregoes a visit to Yasukuni Shrine, skirting diplomatic controversy wit...

Japan scrambled fighter jets a record 1,168 times in fiscal 2016. What's behind this is China's increasing military acti...

A sacred Shinto shrine in northern Japan is destroyed from a direct hit by a toppled tree.