Heavy rains strand 81 people and wash away bridges and water pipes in Gifu Prefecture.

All Nippon Airways flight 629 makes an emergency landing at Kansai Airport after instruments signal a drop in cabin pres...

Summer heat hits Tokyo for four straight days, though weather officials claim the cooler rainy season has not yet ended....

Crown Prince Naruhito visits Japan's oldest tsunami monument to see what lessons can be learned.

A mayor who battled to save his town from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster died Wednesday.

The Hayabusa 2 probe launched three years ago reaches Ryugu, the target asteroid.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly passes a bill to prevent second-hand smoking in restaurants in Japan's capital.