Junpei Yasuda, a freelance journalist held by an armed group in Syria for more than three years, is freed in Turkey.

Anxiety spikes as another maker admits to falsifying quake damper data in earthquake-prone Japan.

Deep in Japan's countryside, Nanto is seeing a surge in foreign residents. Nippon TV meets the historic town's new citiz...

Princess Mako, the first grandchild of Emperor Akihito, turns 27.

Japan will end official development assistance to the world's second largest economy China after 40 years.

An island town in western Japan is without water after a ship is believed to have hit a bridge and severed its water sup...

The government is considering cutting the numbers of partners of Japanese invited to Crown Prince Naruhito's enthronemen...

Japan is looking at reviving a residential 'eco-points' system to counter the effects of an October 2019 consumption tax...

Some 28 central government bodies improperly count 3,700 employees as workers with disabilities.

Students in southwest Japan compete to see whose toothpick tower can withstand an earthquake.