Employees at the Matsumoto Engei garden store in the Tokyo city of Kokubunji are busy with shipments of poinsettias and other ...

A "naked mochi making" event was held at Sengenji temple in the city of Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, early on the morning ...

In the city of Beppu, Oita Prefecture, known for its hot springs, annual year-end cleaning was held at the "Furosen" hot ...

A Japanese publishing startup is using Anthropic’s flagship large language model Claude to help translate manga into English, ...

The leaves of ginkgo trees lining a path in Tokyo's Meiji Jingu Gaien have turned yellow and are at their best. Visitors took ...

OSLO—A hibakusha who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is traveling to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize festivities here ...

The Japanese government may start raising taxes as early as April 2026 to fund the increased defense spending, ...

An increasing number of Japanese businesses are making English their official in-house tongue in specialized departments but not across the board as in the past. Fast Retailing Co., operator of ...

Miho Nakayama, a Japanese singer-actor known for her contributions to the early J-pop scene and the film 'Love Letter,' was ...

A company in Japan is offering a “one-day student” scheme for foreign tourists, allowing them to immerse themselves in local ...

Those looking to buy a house in Japan should avoid doing it just because it's trendy and consider how they can contribute to ...

The Lower House of Japan's Diet has passed a supplementary budget bill worth around 91 billion dollars to pay for a new ...