A Japanese man who was arrested early on Sunday inside the Imperial Palace grounds in Tokyo wearing only his underwear told police he swam across the moat to meet the emperor.

The man, in his 30s, d

Put your fingerprint scanners away. Stand aside iris measurers. Buttocks are the new way to prove who you are.

A team of Japanese scientists claim their pressure sensor sheet can accurately identify

High levels of radiation have been detected in a condominium building in Japan’s Nihonmatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture, which was built using crushed stones taken from an evacuation zone created in th

North Korea test-fired three short-range missiles into the sea between Japan and the Korean peninsula this week, a report said on Friday.

The hermit state lobbed the missiles into the Sea of Japan (E

Japan's premier on Friday reshuffled his cabinet just four months into the job as he looks to rescue plans to raise the sales tax and dig the country out from under its mountain of debt.

Yoshihiko No

A prisoner serving 23 years for attempted murder was on the run on Thursday after escaping from a penitentiary in Hiroshima clad only in white underwear, Japan's first jailbreak in more than two decad

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Japan on Thursday near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, but did not cause any further problems at the power station, officials said.

The quake hit in t

An Olympus Corp panel plans to recommend the endoscope maker sue current and former executives for more than 90 billion yen in scandal-related damages, and its president Shuichi Takayama is expected t

Howard Stringer, the Welsh-born American head of Japanese games, music and electronics giant Sony, is to step down as the firm's president, reports said on Saturday, while remaining CEO and chairman.

Japan says it will soon require atomic reactors to be shut down after 40 years of use to improve safety following the nuclear crisis set off by last year's tsunami.

Concern about aging reactors has