Over 700 people are ordered to evacuate when heavy rain causes a major river in Yamagata Prefecture, northern Japan, to ...

People are embracing fun ways to reduce the millions of tons of edible food that is wasted in Japan each year.

At a preschool in Tokyo, a robot is helping to lighten the load of teachers and caregivers.

Public hearings open on how to dispose of tritium-laced water building up at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.

An Olympic gymnast rocks Japan's gymnastics association with power harassment accusations.

Child abuse cases in Japan passed 130,000 for the first time ever in fiscal 2017.

A scandal over Japan's government padding disabled worker figures spreads to the Diet.

Japan will aim to build a workable flying car by the 2020s.

Furniture giant IKEA Japan announces it will remove all single-use plastic products by 2020.

Japan's education ministry and three major online flea market operators agree to ban transactions of school homework.