The Tokyo government tests ways to mitigate sweltering summer heat in the city during the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Game...

People gather to remember the 520 victims of one of the world's worst aircraft disasters 33 years after a Japan Airlines...

Face authentication for athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics will be adopted for the first time in the ga...

Researchers at Kyoto University announce they will begin clinical trials treating Parkinson's disease with iPS cells.

Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai returns to earth after a six-month stint on the International Space Station and calls...

A group of students at Tokushima University in western Japan are working to bring the first electric railroad to the are...

A new virtual reality project aims to give people worldwide the experience of making sushi.

A citrus fruit farmer from western Japan tackles the world's most grueling foot race in the Sahara Desert wearing wooden...

A supple new robot developed in northern Japan may be about to revolutionize the world of pipes and plumbing.

Farewell Asimo! Honda will no longer continue development on the iconic humanoid robot introduced in 2000.