A giant eel is the talk of the town in Mie, central Japan.

Bullet train service in western Japan is back to normal after a 5-hour power outage.

The Japan Meteorological Agency announces that the rainy season is over in Okinawa, southwest Japan.

Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito returns from Denmark. His trip coincided with the proclamation of a new law allowing Emper...

Police arrest a man in connection with a threat to bomb the Tokyo Skytree tower.

Rainy season begins in Japan's Hokuriku and Tohoku regions as storms pelt Wakayama with record rainfall.

Decommissioned bullet train cars are hauled to a museum in central Japan.

Eight days since the birth of a panda at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, the cub is showing the first signature signs of black.

The announcement of Princess Mako's engagement with college friend Kei Komuro is set for July 8. She is the first grandc...

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike says Tokyo's famous fish market will move to a contaminated new site at Toyosu, and the old...