An airport staff paints the runway with water at Amami Oshima airport, southwestern Japan.

A dashcam video captures the moment a truck falls down from a cliff on to a national highway.

Seibu Railway tests a train that allows users to bring on bicycles.

Mt. Fuji opens to climbers for the first time in two years.

Princess Kako attends a ceremony for children's books.

Japan's Emperor Naruhito gives an online speech at the U.N. Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters.

Zookeepers in Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, unveil a crocodile that measures more than 5 meters in length.

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attend the Japan Art Academy's award ceremony in Tokyo.

Japan's top court rules that civil code provisions forcing married couples to share the same surname are constitutional.

Twin cubs are born to giant panda Shin Shin at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo.