Tokyo

Three robbers attempting to rob a jewelry store in Tokyo were fought off by a man using a pronged samurai pole.

Fans of the Tokyo Zoo’s giant panda Xiang Xiang said goodbye before her return to China.

Assistive technologies were put to the test at a deaf karate competition in Tokyo in preparation for the 2025 Deaflympics.

A Tokyo company is aiming for the moon with its own private lander.

A centuries old laughing ceremony was held in Japan over the weekend, where about 20 farmers took turns laughing three times to express thanks, pray for good harvests and forget the suffering they experienced in 2022.

Human staff operate the avatars from an offsite location.

Several hundred protesters demanded the cancellation of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s state funeral as they shouted slogans and waved banners in a Tokyo park. One demonstrator said Abe’s policies supported war and he feared a step back to militarism.   Abe was one of Japan’s most divisive postwar leaders because of his revisionist view of wartime history, support...