A small, old castle was found in the mountains of Hyogo Prefecture in March. Researchers found the castle using artificial ...

Japanese food yet? There are almost 400 Michelin-starred restaurants in Japan, and the best meals are often found locally. To ...

A Japanese hiker makes unique walking maps in both Japanese and English to help people stay safe.

TOKYO — As Japan gears up to host the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and caters to a surging influx of foreign visitors, the country faces a cultural dilemma: Should it stop identifying Buddhist temples on ...

The Japanese government is seeking to provide support for video game production costs and improve working conditions in the anime industry under a five-year plan to further boost the country's ...

Shigesato Itoi and Hobonichi will produce and sell framed art based on EarthBound pixel maps in Japan. The company will open pre-orders for a limited time in March 2022.

Japan has asked local authorities and state-run universities not to post Google maps on their websites because some of them use non-Japanese names for disputed islands, reports said Sunday.

Japan, still suffering the consequences of its "Lost Decade" of economic stagnation, is eyeing a transformation more radical than any the industrialized world has ever seen.

An earthquake struck the Noto peninsula at around 4:10 p.m., local time, and had a magnitude of 7.6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. According to the ...

Japan plans to start providing flood risk maps for Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia next fiscal year to help the Southeast Asian countries reduce damage from flooding.

Public funds will not pay for the tests. The draft road map incorporates relaxed restrictions for areas under state of emergency and quasi-state of emergency measures.