Ninja appear in Shiga Prefecture's town of Koga, a place famous as an historical hotbed of the shadow warriors...and mod...

Deep in central Japan, an artist left his lifework carved into a mountain.

Tokyo starts collecting used cellphones to mine for the precious metals to mint the medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics a...

A nearly 450-year-old event dazzles crowds in the snow country of northern Japan.

People in a town on the Sea of Japan gorge themselves on rice in a rite that began among farmers when food was scarce.

A man is arrested for impersonating an ex AKB48 idol.

Life-size "hina ningyo" dolls go on display in central Japan ahead of Girls' Festival.

Dirty-faced messengers of the gods scantily clad in straw roam this town dousing homes with water in an ancient and biza...

People in Sapporo bid farewell to some of the world's biggest snow sculptures.

Japan's farmers and fishermen are celebrating another record year of exports as the world's taste for washoku drives de...