Japan calls for a cut in the catch of baby Japanese eel, to allow stocks of the threatened delicacy to recover.

 Japan’s Asahi newspaper retracts a report that workers at Fukushima Daiichi fled the plant at the height of the nuclear...

 Families of Japanese abductees to North Korea call for UN action at a symposium in Geneva.

 Japanese regulators endorse safety upgrades at the Sendai nuclear station in southwestern Japan, paving the way for the...

Japan’s youthful new Industry Minister Yuko Obuchi makes first visit to the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. 

 A new NTV survey shows Japanese like the increase in female Cabinet members.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's first cabinet reshuffle since taking office includes 5 female ministers, in line wi...

The world’s biggest consumers of tuna are discussing the future of the threatened fish as the Western and Central Pacifi...

Japan's Self-Defense Forces hold exercises aimed at defending remote islands from attack.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited disaster-hit Hiroshima; in northern Japan another landslide killed two people.