Japan Post announces plans to hike parcel-shipping rates, following in the footsteps of other major companies.

Torrential rains in northern Japan prompt evacuation advisories, flooding and claim at least one life.

A silent cafe in Tokyo shows that there is more to communicating than just verbal words.

Police in Nagoya respond in full armor when an Italian man holes up in an apartment with a handgun.

Another teacher in Japan is found to have told a student to "jump off a balcony."

A woman in her 70s loses approximately $2m in a phone scam in Niigata Prefecture, northern Japan.

A parasite detector and an anti-viral deep UV-LED emitter are on display at a seafood show in Tokyo.

Summer heat is engulfing Japan despite the traditional calendar predicting cooler temperatures at this time of year.

2 are dead and 1 missing after a barge and a boat pulling it sank off southwest Japan.

Personal info of 12,000 customers is leaked from major travel agency H.I.S.