Japan's Aviation Development and Testing Group has released official photos of the JASDF's EC-2 Stand-Off Jammer aircraft ...

The tiny smiley faces, hearts, knife-and-fork or clenched fist have become a global language for mobile phone messages. They are displayed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. They star in a new ...

“I remember my parents taking me to the beach,” says photographer Asako Narahashi. “The coastline of Japan is very long and complex. There are beaches and mountains. They all have their unique ...

Despite North Korea's firing two missiles and threatening to "sink" Japan over the past three months alone, Kim Jong Un's regime appears to have quite a few fans there. Toru Hanai, a Japanese ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man uses a shovel to scoop mud in a neighborhood devastated by Typhoon Hagibis, Oct. 15, 2019, in Nagano, Japan. (Photo: Jae C.

When celebrated photographer Greg Girard landed in Tokyo in April 1976, he expected to spend only a few days in the Japanese capital. At that time a “broke traveler” in his early 20s, he was headed to ...

New images show what is likely to be melted nuclear fuel hanging from inside one of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima reactors, a potential milestone in the cleanup of one of the worst atomic disasters in ...

A panoramic composite of the destruction in Kesenuma, Japan on March 15, 2011 TIME photographer James Nachtwey was one of the first photographers on the ground in northern Japan covering the ...

In a collection of never-before-published photographs from 19th century Japan, two men are seen crafting traditional Edo-period pipes called “kiseru.” Another scene shows a group of apprentice geishas ...

The Japanese city of Ishinomaki was one of the hardest hit when a powerful tsunami swept ashore on March 11, 2011. Here, an image taken from NASA's Terra satellite three days later, on March 14, shows ...

His discount clothing chain Fast Retailing has thrived amid the downturn. Company is expanding its Uniqlo brand stores abroad in a bid to turn itself into a global name. Plans more than 30 new ...