Many Tokyoites are lured outdoors as temperatures rise to late-April levels around the Japanese capital over the weekend...

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.