The long trail down Tohoku’s dramatic Pacific coast offers hikers the best of natural landscapes and cultural exchanges.

How do you perk up a lonely fish? This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real ...

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he ...

In earthquake-hit areas of central Japan's Noto Peninsula, a man from Iwate Prefecture has been serving warm coffee to people ...

Sake has a rich history complete with dragons and gods in ancient Japan. Today, the rice wine is still sacred and has UNESCO recognition for its intangible cultural heritage. Explore the rice wine in ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency said weather conditions in the Kanto-Koshin region will likely become unstable as warm, moist air along the edge of a high-pressure system flows into the area.

Of that number, Japanese nationals and those who had obtained permanent resident status through marriage and other circumstances accounted for about 47,000, more than double the estimate of 10,000 ...

Typhoon No. 13 packing powerful winds and dangerous storm surges is expected to approach the Okinawa and Amami regions around Sept. 14 and 15. The Japan Meteorological Agency is calling on people ...

South Korea's transport ministry said on Wednesday that it would remove the concrete embankment installed at Muan International Airport following last month's Jeju Air crash, its deadliest ...

One in 12 children globally faces online sexual abuse: Lancet study Approximately one in 12 children worldwide experienced online sexual abuse in the past year, according to a study published in ...

Japan, like many other developed countries, is facing the problem of an aging nation in remote regions. Therefore, the government has introduced several programs that encourage young people to move to ...

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