JR East is developing a system that enables passengers to pass through ticket gates without the hassle of taking out or ...

Japanese Nobel laureate Akira Yoshino gives a lecture on lithium-ion batteries in Stockholm.

Prince Hisahito and his sister Princess Kako attend a speech contest for young people in Tokyo, their first official dut...

Japan's Empress Masako celebrates her 56th birthday, her first since becoming empress earlier this year.

Temperatures in northern Japan plunge to their lowest this winter due to a cold air mass hovering above the archipelago.

People laugh their hearts out in an unusual festival in western Japan.

A fish shop in central Japan prepares sun-dried salmon to be used as gifts.

A Tokyo doll shop unveils this year's decorative battledore rackets.

Police capture a wild boar in a residential area of Saitama Prefecture north of Tokyo one day after a similar animal is ...

Yearly Kabuki event Kaomise Kogyo, a serious of plays with all-star casts, has begun at Minamiza Theatre in Kyoto.