More than 13,000 cranes flock to winter to a plain in southwestern Japan.

The snow crab season kicks off on the Sea of Japan.

Police are looking for the owner of a golden pheasant that some say looks like Donald Trump.

A box of persimmons fetches 100,000 yen in the season's first auction in Ishikawa Prefecture.

The first snowfall of the season is observed in parts of Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido.

A zookeeper at Adventure World, a park in western Japan, weighs a month-old emperor penguin.

Autumn colors at Tsutanuma Lake, northern Japan, are enchanting visitors.

Kochia plants, also known as the summer cypress, have turned red at Hitachi Seaside Park north of Tokyo.

A mall in Ishikawa Prefecture suspends operations after a bear enters the facility.

Shinto priests are on a mission to deliver holy stones to a shrine on the summit of Mt. Tsurugi in central Japan.