Shinto priests are on a mission to deliver holy stones to a shrine on the summit of Mt. Tsurugi in central Japan.

New travel styles are emerging in Japan amid the novel coronavirus.

Organizers of the postponed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics talk about security preparations and how the Olympic flame is...

The Japanese capital could be exposed to severe flooding if heavy rainfall led the Arakawa River to break its banks. Aut...

For the first time ever, TV camera crews go into a former army headquarter that lies beneath Shuri Castle in Okinawa.

At the age of 93, storyteller Tsuiki Shohei continues to talk about his experiences of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasa...

Tokyo raised the coronavirus alert to the highest level on July 15th. As the number of confirmed cases rise in the capit...

Japan's household spending has continued to fall amid the coronavirus pandemic. But "nest spending" is a silver lining f...

A new model of the Shinkansen bullet train goes into service between Tokyo and Hakata. The N700S is the first fully remo...

Starbucks will open its first sign language store in Japan on Saturday.