A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft has made an unprecedented landing on a Japanese naval vessel off the California coast.

Japan's cabinet on Friday rubber-stamped a package of government reforms aimed at rebooting the economy, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe readied to explain the measures to fellow G-8 leaders.

Going straight after a lifetime spent as a member of Japan's feared yakuza organized crime mobs poses a number of challenges. Chief among them is what to do about the fingers you chopped off.

After months of denial and an inexplicably huge surge in home runs, Japan's baseball chiefs have admitted they secretly switched the design of the ball to make the game more exciting.

Japan and the United States have started a joint drill to practice retaking remote islands, the Japanese government said Tuesday, as Tokyo and Beijing continue to face off over a disputed archipelago.

The wife of Japan's pro-business Prime Minister Shinzo Abe does not like nuclear power and would rather her husband's government did not try to export it, she said in a speech.

Japanese troops will converge on California's southern coast in the next two weeks as part of an unprecedented military exercise with U.S. troops aimed at improving that country's amphibious attack abilities.

Japan's prime minister is expected to sign a nuclear technology cooperation deal with the Czech Republic this month, a report said Saturday, as Tokyo looks to build up its exports of the technology.

Japan and France on Friday agreed to boost nuclear cooperation to secure a larger share of global atomic energy markets as Tokyo's pro-nuclear government looks to restart reactors despite public unease in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.

Japan's prime minister promised Wednesday to double inward investment, raise personal incomes by a third and cut red tape to make his country the best place in the world to do business.