8 North Koreans are found washed ashore on a Japan Sea coastal city.

The only nuclear power plant in the Greater Tokyo Area seeks a 20-year extension.

People are throwing one-yen coins to comfort the ancestors in this temple.

An ancient temple in Kyoto opens during peak autumn colors for the first time in more than 1000 years.

The first new venue for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics is complete.

Multiple sightings indicate that what appears to be a dolphin has been making itself at home in a river in the heart of ...

Japan's Imperial Couple visits Yakushima, an island in southwestern Japan, on the first leg of a 3-day tour.

Workers in southwest Japan are busy making dried mullet roe, a pricey specialty once favored by shoguns.

The odds are increasing that a geologic age may be dubbed "Chibanian" and named after a place in Japan for the first tim...

For a limited time, children get to experience the, er, wonder of being a tax office worker at an amusement facility in ...