Schools reopen while the search for missing people continues in rain- ravaged western Japan.

On Ocean Day, beaches remain closed in rain-hit Hiroshima Prefecture.

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

Tokai village holds a major nuclear evacuation drill on the scenario of a nuclear plant accident.

Weather officials are advising people to take precautions against heatstroke as temperatures remained high across Japan.

The death toll from flooding and landslides in western Japan has reached 200.

The basic route for the Tokyo Olympic torch relay is announced.

The daughter of Chizuo Matsumoto, the executed leader of Japanese death cult Aum Shinrikyo, wants to scatter his ashes ...

The canine buddy is expected to be the symbol of friendship between Japan and Mongolia.

Three men are arrested for a robbery attempt at a convenience store in flood-stricken Okayama Prefecture.