A cucumber speed eating contest is held in Niigata Prefecture, north of Tokyo, to promote locally produced cucumbers.

McDonald's Japan raises prices at 184 branches in metropolitan areas.

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako visit Indonesia for their first overseas goodwill trip together in 21 years...

Japan's parliament passes a bill to promote understanding of sexual minorities, but members of the LGBT community expres...

An orange-colored baby monkey is on display at a zoo in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo.

A Harry Potter theme park opens in Tokyo, reenacting the studios where the film series was shot.

Tokyo police arrest a Chinese researcher in Japan on suspicion of leaking trade secret information to a company in China...

US President Joe Biden is found to have brought with him two folded paper cranes to Hiroshima where he attended the Grou...

A charging station for Toyota Motor's luxury Lexus brand electric vehicles opens in central Tokyo.

Premium watermelon Densuke fetches up to 600,000 yen in the season's first auction in northern Japan.