Carp streamers are set up ahead of Children's Day in central Japan.

Japan's Imperial Couple hosts the Swedish royals at an exhibit on Swedish scientists in Tokyo.

A middle-aged couple tries to bring new life to an island that is home to more cats than people.

Fish take to the sky in a coastal western Japan town famous for its bonito catch.

A young kendama prodigy is blowing minds in western Japan.

A rousing drum parade fires up participants at a famous "naked" festival in Hida, central Japan.

A Japanese girl is certified by Guinness World Records as having the world's longest hair on a teenager.

Tea producers and buyers in central Japan bargain the old-fashioned way over the year's first harvest.

A matsutake mushroom sells for around $375 at the season's first auction in southwestern Japan.

A university in a well-known sake-making region launches a special course to educate and promote sake produced in Niigat...