Samantha Thavasa recruits an android to help sell handbags amid a serious labor shortage in the apparel industry.

Girls graduate from an elementary school in Kyoto wearing kimonos made of locally produced silk fabric.

Basket clam fishing is resumed at a lake where a U.S. jet fighter dumped fuel tanks last month.

Tokyo firefighters drill for a massive quake in a city with some of the world's most dense housing.

A self-driving snow cart undergoes testing in central Japan.