Part of a park being built to memorialize the 2011 earthquake and tsunami opens in Miyagi Prefecture.

The Yamagata District Court awards a group of Fukushima evacuees a minor settlement in a suit seeking damages from the g...

A memorial for Yukiya Amano, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, takes place in Tokyo.

Volcanic eruptions begin anew on Nishinoshima Island, part of Tokyo's Ogasawara Islands, after about a year.

The sun rises over Mt. Fuji in a diamond-like form that appears around the Winter Solstice.

Japanese and South Korean officials hold director general-level talks on export controls for the first time in 3.5 years...

Hikonyan, the official mascot of the city of Hikone in western Japan, makes mochi rice cake.

Press get a first look inside Tokyo's New National Stadium, the main venue for the 2020 Olympics.

Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko visit Shuri Castle in Okinawa, which was recently destroyed by fire.

Special edition cars on JR's Yamanote Line in Tokyo promote yearly college marathon Hakone Ekiden.