A new virtual reality project aims to give people worldwide the experience of making sushi.

Tokai village holds a major nuclear evacuation drill on the scenario of a nuclear plant accident.

Weather officials are advising people to take precautions against heatstroke as temperatures remained high across Japan.

A citrus fruit farmer from western Japan tackles the world's most grueling foot race in the Sahara Desert wearing wooden...

Japan's government explains its new policy to accept unskilled foreign labor.

Empress Michiko completes her last round of silk culture before the imperial couple steps down next year.

The death toll from flooding and landslides in western Japan has reached 200.

The basic route for the Tokyo Olympic torch relay is announced.

Major US retailer Walmart is considering selling its Japanese subsidiary, supermarket chain Seiyu, to exit a low-growth ...

The daughter of Chizuo Matsumoto, the executed leader of Japanese death cult Aum Shinrikyo, wants to scatter his ashes ...