People in southwest Japan are feeling the impact of powerful typhoon Malakas.

Farmers in central Japan are competing to grow outrageously big gourds.

A rare golden loach is caught in Gifu Prefecture.

Thousands of farmed yellowtail die in Kagoshima, southwest Japan.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tours typhoon-hit Hokkaido.

In the wake of flood disasters, Japan rethinks its planning for heavily populated areas now at risk.

A record number of Japanese turn 100 in fiscal 2016.

Farmers harvest the fall's first mandarin oranges in western Japan.

A powerful low pressure system is dumping more rain on recently flooded northern Japan.

Record rains in northernmost Hokkaido keep an evacuation order in place for Wakkanai residents.