The chances of getting a replacement are poor, with Tokyo's relations with Beijing at their lowest point in years amid ...

Fifteen years after a tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident, only bears, raccoons and boar are seen on the streets. But the authorities and some locals want people to move back ...

Japan has handed over a dredger to Fiji in a move aimed at shifting Fiji from repeated flood response to long-term prevention ...

By Leika Kihara and Takaya Yamaguchi TOKYO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Any Japanese intervention to prop up the yen will have limited ...

One of the surviving reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was loaded with fuel last summer and recently turned back on, ...

At the train station we’re the only passengers who get off. At our accommodation, we’re the first foreigners our host has seen in a long time.

From rental families to grief phone booths, Japanese people have used surprising strategies to combat loneliness.

The utility needs funds to continue decommissioning the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant, which was hit by a meltdown after an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

In Earth's highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to thrive to an explosion of vertebrate diversity in the absence of human interference. A different story ...

Japan may have its first woman Prime Minister, but in the business community, breaking down decades of entrenched resistance toward female leaders is proving harder. For Chikako Tarukawa, who runs ...

Japan’s persistently fragile currency has heightened speculation of potential intervention in currency markets to shore up the Yen, as the Asian nation’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi gears up for a ...