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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

About a million Americans a year are expected to develop dementia by 2060, roughly double today's toll, researchers reported ...