Scandal-plagued Tokyo Medical University comes under fire for systematically discriminating against female applicants to...

Foreign ministers from Japan and China confirm the countries will continue to work to resolve issues related to North Ko...

Venomous fire ants are found at Narita International Airport on the outskirts of Tokyo.

Men take a portable shrine for a dip in a waterfall in an ancient summer rite in Akita Prefecture, northern Japan.

Japan's government creates a new team to prevent terrorism with an eye toward the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Typhoon Jongdari has slowed down but deadly heat wave continues to smother the nation.

A flood-hit university in Hiroshima restarts classes.

Japan vows to reduce its 47 tons of plutonium stockpile.

Typhoon Jongdari does minimal damage on Honshu this weekend. Rescue workers resume searching for missing people and repa...

A group of students at Tokushima University in western Japan are working to bring the first electric railroad to the are...