A survey shows that elderly people's stamina levels are at a record high in Japan.

Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture erupts for the first time in 36 years but officials say chances for a mudslide to occur...

A center where cancer patients and their families can receive social and emotional support opens up in Tokyo.

Sales of Thai tuktuks are booming in central Japan.

Police arrest a 27-year-old Englishman after a bomb scare rattled people in Shibuya, downtown Tokyo Friday afternoon.

Portable shrines clashed in the climax of an autumn festival in Matsuyama, western Japan.

The US military resumes flights of Harrier fighter jets in Okinawa following a crash off the prefecture last month.

Japan will require all new quiet electric and hybrid cars to have noise-making devices by 2018.

The Sendai nuclear reactor no. 1 in Kagoshima Prefecture undergoes its first periodic inspection under post-Fukushima re...

39 people are stranded in central Japan in the wake of Typhoon Chaba.