Typhoon Phoenix is expected to bring powerful winds and rains to southwestern Japan.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lunches with American women executives to hear about female empowerment.

Thirty-seven years since Megumi Yokota was kidnapped by North Korean agents, her classmates held a charity concert.

 Dengue fever is believed to have spread to another famous park in central Tokyo.

The nuclear accident of March 2011 left countless children traumatized as entire families fled their homes. As they grow...

 A new volcanic island in the Pacific is engulfing its neighbor.

 The last person missing in a Hiroshima landslide that claimed 74 lives has been found.

 The IWC votes to adopt a stricter approach to issuing whaling permits as Japan vows to file a new scientific whaling pl...

 The Japanese government decides to recommend the country’s oldest church and other Christian sites for UNESCO World Her...

 A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck the Tokyo area Tuesday afternoon Japan time. No fatalities were reported.