Takanawa Gateway Station opens in Tokyo, serving JR East's Yamanote loop line and Keihin Tohoku line. The futuristic sta...

A couple in Miyagi Prefecture is reunited with their deceased daughter nine years after the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Japan's Self-Defense Forces delivers nearly 350,000 masks from its stockpile to the government amid a serious shortage o...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda hold talks about the impact of the novel coronaviru...

Japan's National Police Agency says more minors than ever were involved in crimes through social media in 2019.

The city of Himeji in western Japan asks the government to dispatch infectious disease experts following an outbreak of ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his government will fight the spread of the new coronavirus more than ever in co...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a flower-offering event for victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami,...

Major Japanese companies respond with caution to labor unions' annual pay raise demands amid uncertainties surrounding t...

Japan marks nine years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami that killed nearly 16,000 people and ca...