Japan's Imperial Couple joins an international meeting on optics technology.

Authorities lower the alert for the deadly Mt. Ontake volcano from 2 to 1.

Police in central Japan are investigating a landslide that buried a highway in waste materials and injured six people.

Prince Akishino and his daughter Princess Mako visit a pig farm in Hungary.

A man goes missing after rushing to help his 2-year-old son who dropped from a bridge in eastern Japan.

A fireworks artisan in central Japan returns to traditional methods.

Once an elite breed of spy carrying out stealth missions, ninjas now help Japan to boost tourism."忍者"が足りない！？訪日外国人にも人気の忍者...

A baby panda at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo draws a record more than 320,000 proposals for its name.

Japan will drill its emergency J-Alert system Friday to be ready for the possible flight of a North Korean missile over ...

A kindly "ugume" mom-ghost gives kids the shivers at a Buddhist temple in Nagasaki.