Giant panda Shin Shin gives birth in Tokyo.

A plummeting population and potential lack of village assembly candidates prompts a village to mull abolishing its elect...

A black Densuke watermelon sells for 500,000 yen (more than 4,500 dollars) as the year's first auctions of the fruit are...

Locals in central Japan are using the internet to protect crops from marauding monkeys.

Smartphone owners for the first time make up more than 50 percent of people with cellphones in Japan.

Japan's emperor is allowed to abdicate for the first time in 200 years after a special bill is passed in parliament. Aki...

Simple things can also be the most extraordinary, and that could be said for food as well. Broth soup now plays a more-t...

Haagen-Dazs Japan is recalling 2.74 million cups of ice cream after pieces of black rubber were found inside a product.

It's been learned Japan's nuclear regulator hadn't checked the fuel container that ruptured and irradiated workers once ...

19 pigs run amok on the Hanshin Expressway in the wake of a traffic accident in Osaka.