An illumination event at a UNESCO World Heritage-listed settlement in this central Japan village began on Jan. 13, lighting ...

Etsuko Sato, a resident of the Hyogo Prefecture city of Kakogawa, receives an email on Jan. 17 every year -- the anniversary ...

Central Japan Railway Co. plans to test a pet-friendly car on the Tokaido Shinkansen, Japan's busiest bullet train line ...

Mongolians and others living in Japan visit the temple as a place of spiritual comfort, and the Mongolia-born former sumo ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has paid visits to Malaysia, which this year holds the chairmanship of the Association ...

The number of foreign visitors to Japan topped 36 million in 2024 in a new all-time high, boosted by a weak yen and the ...

TOKYO -- A post stating that visitors to Tokyo Disney Resort will be kicked out for running led to the term "forced ejection" ...

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A disreputable scientific journal used generative AI to create bogus papers, using the names of three Japanese researchers ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was detained Wednesday after he ignored three summonses from a joint investigation team ...

Numerous broken ceramic grenades lying in the bottom of the Binnuma River, the old Arakawa River channel flowing along the ...

Tsubaki Miki became the first Japanese season discipline winner at the snowboard alpine World Cup on Tuesday after securing ...