Tokyo wants 110,000 volunteers to help guide foreigners during the 2020 summer Olympics and Paralympics.

Japan faced its hottest day this year Wednesday as an out-of-season warm front enveloped the archipelago.

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visit Yonaguni, Japan's westernmost island, on the second leg of their Okinawa tour.

Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force gets a major reorganization, with the creation of a unified command and amphibious for...

Monster-themed art transforms a small town in western Japan.

Police arrest a US man for manufacturing amphetamines at Tokyo guest houses.

A university in central Japan develops less perfect robots to create a world where people and robots can better collabor...

Panda cub Xiang Xiang enjoys her first spring cherry blossoms.

Shikoku Electric will decommission a reactor at its Ikata nuclear plant.

Japan's national pension says data was mistakenly entered on over 100,000 people and pensions underpaid by about $19m.