Princess Mako officially announces her engagement to university classmate Kei Komuro after receiving Emperor Akihito's b...

Narita Airport comes up with a way to further prompt shopping at duty-free shops.

The Japanese government conducts disaster drills on "Disaster Prevention Day".

A major Japanese developer announces to construct a 58-story office building in Manhattan, New York.

Japan's fiscal year 2017 budget is expected to exceed 904 billion dollars (100 trillion yen).

Japan's prime minister holds phone talks with the U.S. president two days in a row in the wake of North Korea's missile ...

Kyoto University research team announces that they have successfully improved Parkinson's disease symptoms in monkeys us...

Possible names for Tokyo's Ueno Zoo panda cub are narrowed down to 8 entries.

An evacuation drill is held in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, amid residents' mounting anxiety over North Korean missile l...

Sumiteru Taniguchi, an atomic bomb survivor and peace activist for over 60 years, dies at the age of 88.