Unesco adds 33 traditional festivals featuring parades and floats to its intangible cultural heritage list.

The media is shown the vacant Toyosu market nearly a month after it was supposed to replace Tokyo's famous Tsukiji whole...

A tea ceremony for the gods at a picturesque Shinto shrine and famous landmark draws crowds of people.

A slight majority of experts on a government panel on Imperial abdication support or conditionally support the abdicatio...

An American contractor is arrested on suspicion he slashed a woman at a US military base in Japan.

A Ferris wheel catches fire in western Japan but no one is injured.

Japan's lower house passes a pension reform bill to stem rising expenditures.

Two outbreaks of virulent avian flu in northern Japan force local governments to kill birds to stop the virus from sprea...

A firestorm of criticism over a skating rink freezing fish into its ice leads the operator to shut down the facility tem...

Tokyo and Olympic organizers held a debriefing to help the metropolis take lessons from the Rio to help make the 2020 To...