Capybaras enjoy a hot bath at an animal park in Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo.

Organizers of the Awa dance festival hold a test event to see if they can go ahead with the summer festivities next year...

Christmas decorations are put up at a mansion in Kobe, western Japan, with Santa Claus and this year's newsmakers appear...

Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide backs a subsidy program that promotes domestic travel and dining out despite the recent sp...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako hold their first online meeting with medical workers.

Wine lovers gather at countdown parties as sales of Beaujolais Nouveau wines start in Japan.

As Tokyo confirms a record daily high of 534 new COVID-19 cases, it raises its coronavirus alert to the highest level

Kyushu Railway Company starts operations of its luxury sightseeing train in disaster-affected Kumamoto Prefecture.

An inspection team at Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority continues to study a reprocessed video of the nuclear acciden...

Hokkaido in northern Japan raises its alert for the coronavirus outbreak in Sapporo amid a surge in infections in the pr...