Authorities fear the possibility of secondary disasters in northeastern Japan as strong rain falls on areas hit by a mag...

Locals in southwestern Japan begin digging up areas devastated by the 1991 eruption at Mt. Unzen as part of efforts to p...

A new kind of huge deep-sea fish that were caught off the coast of Shizuoka Prefecture is named Yokozuna Iwashi.

A whiteout is likely to have caused a massive car pileup in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

A lamb that looks like a cow is born at a sheep farm in northern Japan on the first day of the Year of the Ox.

A cold front is blanketing Japan, likely to bring heavy snow as the country rings in the New Year.

A volcano in Kagoshima Prefecture erupts but no damage is reported.

A landslide destroys a vacant house in central Japan.

Heavy snow in central Japan leaves hundreds of vehicles stuck for hours on expressways.

Cold air mass brings record snowfall to the mountainous areas in Gunma and Niigata Prefecture.