It was once a thriving coal mining town with a population of over 100,000 people. But today, Yubari, located in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, is a ghost of its former self — with fewer than ...

There are endless urban centers to visit in Japan beyond Tokyo and Kyoto. To shift in a different direction from those two ...

An earthquake measuring 6.9 magnitudes occurred near the southeastern coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu and tremors were ...

Their facility is located on the island and they locally source two types of sake rice, Gohyakumangoku and Echitanrei. This petite patch of Japanese land has, however, gained national acclaim for ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Coastal surveillance radars supplied by Japan will be posted on the Batanes islands less than 200 kilometers from Taiwan, the country’s top military official said Thursday. The ...

Video games are an excellent way to learn about history, science, and even other cultures. It's getting easier and easier to find fascinating games with unique visuals, great stories, and moving ...

International tourism to Japan has exploded in recent years, and while the official figure for 2024 is yet to be released it is now certain to be a new record in excess of the 31.9 million who ...

The world-changing event has at last been linked with the Zavaritskii volcano on Simushir of the Kuril Islands, an uninhibited strip of land barely 59 kilometers (37 miles) in length located between ...

The trail circumnavigates Shikoku, the smallest of Japan’s four main islands: mountainous, forested and ringed by rugged coast, it’s also the least visited by tourists. To complete the trail ...

Among the newcomers is a whiskey called, appropriately, Takamine, which is distilled in Japan in collaboration with Honkaku Spirits, a Long Island-based importer that specializes in koji-based ...

Why it's incredible: The group of islands is the most remote inhabited location on Earth. Tristan da Cunha is a group of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean that is home to the world's most ...

A fleet of Chinese navy vessels has conducted what Japanese military analysts believe was an exercise to impose a naval blockade between the main island of Okinawa and the most westerly islands of ...