Bereaved families commemorate the death of soldiers who died in the Battle of Iwo Jima for the first time in three years...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attend the Imperial Guard's New Year ceremony.

Prime Minister Kishida Fumio eyes downgrading the classification of the coronavirus under Japan's infectious disease law...

Japan's consumer price index for December rises 4.0 percent from a year earlier, marking the highest level in the pace o...

Telecommunications firm Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East shows its edible cricket farm to media organizations.

A humpback whale appears in Tokyo Bay days after a sperm whale died in Osaka Bay.

Japan posts a record trade deficit of 19.97 trillion yen in 2022 due to effects of the weak yen and surges in crude oil ...

Two oarfish are caught in a squid fishing net set up off the shore of Toyama Prefecture in central Japan.

A horse chasing event takes place in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido to give horses an opportunity to make up fo...

An ecologically friendly ferry is unveiled at a port in Osaka, western Japan.