With the increasing number of foreign residents, the importance of Japanese language education is on the rise. Starting from ...

January 20 marks the birthday of Kyogo Furuhashi, one of Japan’s most exciting attacking talents in recent years. Known for ...

Thousands of people marked on Friday the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives and levelled ...

I'm in Kobe Japan staying at The Hotel Piena which is suppose to have the BEST all you can eat traditional japanese breakfast ...

The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that ...

In a new Daily Dose of Social Media, Jannik Sinner takes center stage after winning the Australian Open title. The World No. 1 toasted during his press conference, honoring basketball player Kobe ...

Five years have passed since the death of the NBA myth, who has already become a cultural icon. When the Dodgers were courting Shohei Ohtani, the Japanese baseball phenomenon, 2024 World Series ...

Thousands of people marked on Friday the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives and levelled much of the Japanese city of Kobe. The 7.2-magnitude quake on January 17 ...

Former Japanese star Ichiro Suzuki headlined inductees in the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame. He became famous as a Seattle Mariner, and his election comes as Japanese players are more popular than ever.

A video posted on his YouTube channel shows the antitank gun being fired indoors, with targets stacked up bursting apart. (Japanese original by Yuta Shibayama, Kobe Bureau) ...

Your TV GPS, a look at the week ahead in television, appears every Monday morning on BostonGlobe.com. Today’s column covers ...

At the Higashi Yuenchi park in Kobe’s Chuo Ward, about 6,500 bamboo and paper lanterns were arranged to spell out in Japanese “Yorisou 1.17.” Event organizers said yorisou, or to stand ...