A ski area on Mt. Fuji becomes the season's first outdoor ski slope to open in Japan for the 23rd straight year.

Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea will extend their hours of operation starting November 1.

A Japanese startup company begins the trial of a next-generation COVID vaccine.

Honda Motor announces it will sell only electric vehicles in China after 2030.

Japan's last double-decker bullet train retires.

Central Japan Railway Company will have a designated telework car on its Nozomi Shinkansen.

High levels of nitrogen have been detected in tap water at Gunma University Hospital, north of Tokyo, where 10 newborn b...

An eruption occurs on Mt. Aso in southwestern Japan on a scale last seen five years ago.

Empress Emerita Michiko turns 87 years old on October 20.

Campaigning for the House of Representatives election formally begins, with voting scheduled on October 31.