A North Korean missile falls into the Sea of Japan, prompting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to promise concrete action worki...

Princess Mako visits Emperor Akihito before her trip to Bhutan.

The last batch of Japanese troops in South Sudan left the country after taking part in a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

A Japanese World War Two sub sunk by the US has been found sticking straight out of the seabed off Nagasaki.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves for Italy to attend the G7 summit.

Chinese authorities reportedly detain several Japanese company employees conducting a geological survey.

A spate of accidents prompt police to ask street-legal go-kart operators to take safety measures.

Olympic organizers announce that elementary school students around Japan will vote on the mascot for the 2020 Tokyo Olym...

Japan's minister in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks leaves for Vietnam.

Japan scrambles planes against what appeared to be a Chinese drone over its waters near the Senkaku Islands.