Kwansei Gakuin University disciplines a non-Japanese lecturer for radiation-related discriminatory remarks against a gir...

Tokyo's Ueno Zoo takes popular giant pandas Ri Ri and Shin Shin off public display for mating season.

Hundreds of people descend on a hot spring resort town...to face off in combat with pillows.

Ninja appear in Shiga Prefecture's town of Koga, a place famous as an historical hotbed of the shadow warriors...and mod...

Deep in central Japan, an artist left his lifework carved into a mountain.

The Meteorological Agency announces the first gale of spring in the Tokyo area.

Two doctors and a medical student are indicted for allegedly gang raping drunk teen women.

Tokyo starts collecting used cellphones to mine for the precious metals to mint the medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics a...

A nearly 450-year-old event dazzles crowds in the snow country of northern Japan.

Heavy snow crushed a house, killing its 53-year-old resident in Fukushima, northern Japan.