Ruling party leaders in Japan support enacting a onetime law for Emperor Akihito to abdicate the throne.

Reclamation work for a controversial US base relocation project in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Okinawa resumed to...

The Sapporo Snow Festival kicks off in northern Japan with 200 ice sculptures for visitors to enjoy.

A primary school in Japan is giving first aid teaching a musical twist.

The Internet of Things improves efficiency at a supermarket and helps fisherman predict when fish can be caught.

Hitachi unveils an updated robot with a sensor that will venture inside reactor 1 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power...

People in Kagawa Prefecture are eating a unique local ehomaki for setsubun festival.

Tokyo Electric releases an image of a large hole below Japan's Fukushima Daiichi number two reactor.

A snowstorm causes a pileup involving 25 cars in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

Japan approves the world's first retinal transplants using cells grown from donor iPS stem cells.