Japan's Imperial Couple attends the year's first professional sumo match.

A festival to wish children healthy growth was held in Hijimachi, Oita Prefecture in Southern Japan.

Japanese women and men who have turned 20 years old celebrate this national holiday wearing kimonos and suits.

People in far north Japan are suffering under the winter's coldest weather yet.

Japan will recall its ambassador to South Korea over a statue of a so-called comfort woman.

Every year, men in Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture jog in the freezing cold wearing only a loincloth to pray for good health...

Young tour guides at a major bus tour company in Japan celebrates Coming-of-Age Day.

A new exhibition in Tokyo tells the story of a Japanese girl abducted by North Korea forty years ago.

Japanese authorities have arrested an American man for illegally importing some 200 marijuana candies.

A single tuna fetches more than $638k in the New Year's first auction at Tokyo's famous Tsukiji fish market.