Olympic organizers announce that elementary school students around Japan will vote on the mascot for the 2020 Tokyo Olym...

Japan's cabinet approves a bill to allow Emperor Akihito to abdicate.

A Japanese music copyright administration body has told Kyoto University it will have to pay for posting lyrics of Bob D...

A giant panda at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo is showing signs of being pregnant.

Tokyo Olympic planners have collected just 30k out of 20m old cell phones needed to provide materials for the Olympic me...

A new study of contamination at the planned relocation site for Tokyo's famous Tsukiji fish market finds benzene one-hun...

Kansai Electric Power Company restarts a reactor at the Takahama Nuclear Plant.

Japan observes a GDP increase for the fifth quarter in a row.

Japan protests against South Korean research near the Takeshima Islands.

Bird overpopulation is decimating goldfish farms in the aquaculture region of central Japan.