A local planetarium damaged in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake will observe its 30th anniversary on Jan. 17 by stopping its ...

A town in Nagasaki Prefecture’s Goto Islands in autumn last year set up a new section devoted to the area’s specialty noodles ...

Students at a junior high school in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, wrote messages to the victims of the Great Hanshin Earthquake on ...

Heavy snowstorms continue in areas along the Sea of Japan. Although their intensity is somewhat decreasing, meteorologists ...

Tokyo topped the rankings of Japan's 47 prefectures in terms of the amount of spending money adults have, followed by ...

More than 100 runners, wishing to be this year's "lucky men," have competed in an early morning race at a shrine in western ...

Surrounded by the vast Pacific Ocean, Japan’s Ise-Shima region is a place where ancient traditions, spirituality and the great outdoors collide.

IT’S 8 AM ON NOV 7 at Tottori Port. Inside a nondescript warehouse, a large congregation of mostly men in rubber boots and ...

Woven City, Toyota's community designed by Bjarke Ingels near Mt. Fuji, completed its first phase of construction and will ...

Nara's Horyuji Temple is another World Heritage Site. Its central gate, main hall, and five-story pagoda were built around ...

The most common way to enjoy Goto udon in Shinkamigoto is “jigoku-daki” (literally “hell boiling”), which involves taking the ...

Social media proved to be a powerful campaign tool in 2024 elections, shocking political parties that had stuck to ...