People in Japan are bundling up as a cold snap brings unseasonably heavy snowfalls to the Japan Sea coast.

Giant panda cub Xiang Xiang turns 160 days old.

A cold snap sends the mercury in Tokyo to a 36-year low and to subfreezing temperatures elsewhere.

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 main island Honshu gets its first snow of the season.

Nippon TV peers inside the no-go zone of a volcano in central Japan.

Tokyo's celebrity giant panda cub Xiang Xiang is expected to go on display to the public around December 19.

Images of stray cats in martial arts poses are creating a buzz in Japan.

A "sea of fog," a fall feature, appears in Miyoshi, Hiroshima Prefecture.

More than 1,200 fish suddenly dying at one of Tokyo's top aquariums stuns staff and disappoints visitors.