Autumn in Japan is a season for mountain climbing, and the number of foreign hikers is rising. Police statistics show that ...

Almost eight decades after an atomic bomb devastated her home town, Teruko Yahata carries the scar on her forehead from when ...

The world’s largest ever storm hit exactly 45 years ago, when Typhoon Tip churned above the Pacific. Measuring 1,380 miles in ...

There are eight matches at the WTA Osaka, Japan Women Singles 2024 today, the best being No. 59-ranked Moyuka Uchijima ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Thursday there were neither signs of El Nino nor La Nina phenomena at this moment, but it is approaching characteristics of La Nina.

As the world faces rapid change and competition over AI, Japan’s step-up is significant for the East Asian region but also ...

Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in the 1960s, shrinking travel times and inspiring a ...

Japan, despite an officially pacifist Constitution written when memories of its World War II rampage were still fresh--and painful--boasts a military that puts all but a few nations to shame.

Jun Sato, Paul Weller's A&R man in Japan, explains his history with the celebrated UK singer/songwriter in this interview.

Japan and India rank next to China in Asia's GDP rankings. 4. What are the top 10 richest countries in the world? The top 10 richest countries in the world by GDP per capita are as follows: ...

A World War II bomb exploded from beneath an airport in Japan on Wednesday, canceling over 80 flights. The blast left a large crater on the taxiway, but remarkably, there were no aircraft nearby ...

This was the dawn of Japan’s “bullet train” era, widely regarded as the defining symbol of the country’s astonishing recovery from the trauma of World War II. In tandem with the 1964 ...