Snow is predicted to fall Thursday in cold snap-hit Tokyo.

Two official shops of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will open for a limited time in the Japanese capital.

A week after a cold snap thousands of households on the Sea of Japan coast remain without access to water.

The Tokyo High Court rules constitutional a 1.98 vote disparity in last year's Lower House election.

Tourists on an ice breaker off Hokkaido set out on the season's first drift ice viewing trip.