Japanese players sweep the three divisions in the video game competition at the Pokemon World Championships.

A total of 260,000 pop-culture fans visit the Comic Market over two days in Tokyo.

A song that late Japanese musician Sakamoto Ryuichi composed for a school in western Japan has been completed.

A water splashing festival called Fukagawa Hachiman Matsuri takes place in Tokyo for the first time in six years.

The Awa Odori dance festival takes place in Tokushima, western Japan.

Japanese chefs are hoping to spread the spirit of "mido," which means road of gastronomy, around the world while working...

The National Ballet of Ukraine, which has been performing across Japan since last month, holds a news conference in Toky...

Members of the popular Japanese idol group Nogizaka 46 read in-train announcements for bullet trains.

Around 10,000 fireworks mark the end of the famed Aomori Nebuta Festival in northeastern Japan.

Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science raises 100 million yen in crowdfunding in nine hours.