Prince Hisahito, the son of Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, visited the Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum ...

The aim of the policy is to enable local governments that will provide support, and the prefectures expected to receive help, to conduct joint disaster drills and other preparations.

Members of Japanese civil groups have strongly opposed the country's growing defense budget and the US commitment to ...

Hay fever sufferers beware. Forecasters are predicting that cedar and cypress pollen is arriving earlier and in larger ...

FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- In Japan, there is a little-known network of "white post" pornography drop boxes that were installed on ...

The most famous attraction is Takachiho Gorge – a deep chasm carved out by several explosions from the nearby Mount Aso, ...

Fusako Goto was a toddler in Fukuoka, Japan, when she started using chopsticks to eat. At age 65, she now teaches elementary school students in Litchfield how to use the Japanese eating utensils.

SHINKAMIGOTO, Japan >> A town in Nagasaki prefecture’s Goto Islands last year set up a government department devoted to the area’s specialty noodles, Goto udon.

If you would like to know more about the Straw Hats shipwright Franky, here are the top 10 facts you should know about him.

Known as hana boro in Japanese, rime ice is a must-see phenomenon in Nagasaki Prefecture’s hot spring town of Unzen. Come ...

Each year the Anime Tourism Association puts out a list of "Anime Pilgrimage Sites People Should Visit," and 2025's list was ...

Kyuden Mirai Energy, a renewable energy subsidiary of Kyushu Electric Power, has unveiled a new tidal power generator ...