People in a town on the Sea of Japan gorge themselves on rice in a rite that began among farmers when food was scarce.

The operator of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will send a robot into the stricken No.2 reactor.

A woman in Hiroshima is arrested for running an investment fraud targeting elderly residents of her assisted living faci...

A man is arrested for impersonating an ex AKB48 idol.

Life-size "hina ningyo" dolls go on display in central Japan ahead of Girls' Festival.

Japan's government is trying to reform the way people work through a bill limiting overtime.

South Korean media report Kim Jong-nam, the leader of North Korea's half-brother, has been poisoned to death in Malaysia...

A ski patrol is dead after he and two coworkers were caught in an avalanche Monday morning in central Japan.

Dirty-faced messengers of the gods scantily clad in straw roam this town dousing homes with water in an ancient and biza...

People in Sapporo bid farewell to some of the world's biggest snow sculptures.