Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike says she will lead a new national political party to vie for seats in the upcoming election....

Tokyo's celebrity baby panda is named Xiang Xiang.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe calls a snap election, seeking a fresh mandate and pledging a spending package of nearly $18 b...

A piece of paneling form a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines jet falls from the sky and shatters the window of a moving car in ce...

A district court orders Tokyo Electric Power Company to pay damages in a class-action suit brought by people displaced b...

The head of Japan's biggest advertising agency admits the company engaged in illegal employment practices forcing employ...

Japan's Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera slams a comment by North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho hinting that the c...

The US military's parachute training faces opposition in Okinawa, southern Japan.

Japan dispatches a disaster relief team to Mexico in the wake of the latest devastating earthquake.

Toshiba decides to sell its semiconductor unit to a consortium of Japanese, US and South Korean firms.