A Japanese girl is certified by Guinness World Records as having the world's longest hair on a teenager.

Outgoing Vice Finance Minister Junichi Fukuda denies a female TV Asahi reporter's accusation of sexual harassment.

Mt. Iou in southwest Japan erupts, forcing tourists to evacuate.

Tokyo's Haneda Airport begins Japan's first 3D carry-on baggage screening ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Tea producers and buyers in central Japan bargain the old-fashioned way over the year's first harvest.

Japan's top spokesman tells the Diet a Self-Defense Force officer should never have verbally abused an opposition lawmak...

The Finance Ministry's top bureaucrat steps down over a sexual harassment scandal.

Unesco lists Japan's Izu Peninsula as a Global Geopark.

A new urine test that can reveal cancer in infants as well as breast and other cancers is to begin clinical trials in Ja...

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves for the US to hold talks with President Donald Trump.