Central Japan Railway plans to give up on aiming to launch in 2027 a magnetic levitation railway service between Tokyo a...

Princess Aiko will be assigned to the youth and volunteer section at the Japanese Red Cross Society when she starts work...

A giant mural of Dodgers player Ohtani Shohei is unveiled in Los Angeles, with hundreds of people gathered to watch.

Kobayashi Pharmaceutical announces that four consumers have died after taking its dietary supplements.

Universal Studios Japan characters entertain passengers on a bullet train enroute to Osaka.

Kobayashi Pharmaceutical is investigating a death and dozens of hospitalization cases that may be linked to one of its d...

Princess Aiko makes her first visit alone to Ise Shrine.

Japanese comedian Matsumoto Hitoshi says he is "beset and sad" over his sexual assault allegations ahead of the first co...

So-yu, a day-use hot spring in the Wakura Onsen area of Ishikawa Prefecture reopens for business for the first time in t...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako visit Ishikawa Prefecture to inspect areas affected by the Noto Peninsula earthquake...