A 20-year-old woman has been arrested for abandoning the body of her newborn baby daughter in a plastic bag at her home in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture. Police said Akane Tomioka, a company employee, ...

Visitor spending in Japan broke an annual record in just nine months, official data showed on Wednesday, demonstrating the economic power of a tourism boom fueled by the weak yen. Travellers spent ...

Yoshiko Ishiba, 68, Japan's new first lady, is known for her gentle demeanor and enjoys even greater popularity than her 67-year-old husband Shigeru, in his home city of Tottori in western Japan. The ...

As Japan's population falls and interest in religion declines, there are fewer people to contribute to the upkeep of the country's numerous temples and shrines. Suzuki's Mikaboyama temple, for example ...

The aging No. 1 reactor of the Takahama nuclear power plant in central Japan was given the all clear by the nuclear regulator Wednesday to continue operations, making it the first reactor in the ...

At least 16 people have died and a dozen are missing on Japan's southern island of Kyushu as unprecedented rains cause flooding and landslides. Fourteen victims were found in one nursing home ...