Empress Michko attends the Japan Red Cross Society's Annual Meeting, her last before Emperor Akihito abdicates next year...

Japan's government green lights Osaka University scientists to treat human heart disease with iPS cells, the first of it...

Japan issues its foreign policy bluebook for this fiscal year, terming N.Korea an "urgent threat."

Police conduct a large-scale drill at a new facility built to simulate disasters like Japan's 2011 quake and tsunami.

Records are found on forced sterilizations of 10 disabled women conducted under a lapsed eugenics law.