High-tech mausoleums and women-only graves are signs of changing approaches to death in Japan.

A woman employed at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department feigns being kidnapped on a visit to her hometown in centra...

Nijo Castle is illuminated and opened to the public in the fall for the first time to commemorate a watershed historical...

Temperatures plunge as unseasonably warm weather gives way to a cold spell.

A rare black fox is captured on video in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

Cosplay fans are using historic buildings as backdrops in northern Japan.

US President Donald Trump will reportedly meet the parents of a Japanese woman abducted by North Korea.

A volcano in southwestern Japan, which erupted Wednesday for the first time in about six years, emits bigger plume.

A study-coupon project financed by crowdfunding is launched in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward to help needy junior high school stu...

A Japanese court orders the government to pay more than $5.4m in a noise pollution lawsuit over the US Yokota air base i...