Geisha in Kyoto's Gion district begin their traditional New Year's rituals.

Buddhist monks clean up Naritasan Shinshoji Temple for the annual year-end cleaning.

Police arrest 3 men in southwestern Japan for trying to smuggle 600 kilograms of stimulant drugs by boat.

Within less than eight months to go until the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, groups and individuals are trying to ...

A 9-year-old boy in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture becomes the youngest person in Japan to pass a graduate school-level m...

Tamotsu Hosokawa tells his story of surviving harrowing conditions in Soviet detention camps for more than two years fol...

The ruins of Takeda Castle in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, appear to float in the sky due to a natural phenomenon.

Tokyo police investigate a 17-year-old high school student for buying and selling uranium online and refer the case to p...

JR East is developing a system that enables passengers to pass through ticket gates without the hassle of taking out or ...

Japanese Nobel laureate Akira Yoshino gives a lecture on lithium-ion batteries in Stockholm.