Kansai Electric Power Company restarts a reactor at the Takahama Nuclear Plant.

Bird overpopulation is decimating goldfish farms in the aquaculture region of central Japan.

2-month-old otter triplets at an aquarium in Fukui Prefecture are learning to swim and delighting visitors.

A tick-borne virus kills a woman in her 70s in Sasebo, amid a rash of infections in western Japan.

A wild boar runs rampant in a famous hotel in Japan's ancient capital Kyoto.

Shutterbugs and others from around the nation turn out to witness the appearance of a "phantom" waterfall in Nagano Pref...

Japan's dearly departed elephant Hanako now has her own statue.

The Pacific Ocean is looking red off the coast of Kamakura, possibly due to an overabundance of plankton, or algal bloom...

Mt. Sakurajima erupted early Tuesday, sending a plume of ash 4000 meters high.

Tourists flock to a moss phlox flower festival at the base of Mt. Fuji in central Japan.