Autumn in Japan is a season for mountain climbing, and the number of foreign hikers is rising. Police statistics show that ...

It expects the season to start on March 17 in Nagoya City; March 18 in Fukuoka ... the arrival of spring in Tokyo. NHK World-Japan will update this map daily.

Open-world games often like to go back into the past for inspiration. Ghost of Tsushima was such a hit mostly for how it ...

Four American aircraft carriers were underway in the Pacific Ocean while two Chinese aircraft carriers were docked together.

Nara, Japan is a city like no other on the planet. Home to more than 1,000 sacred deer, the capital of the Nara Prefecture is ...

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With its shimmering harbour and tiara of snowcapped peaks, it’s little wonder Vancouver consistently rates in lists of the ...

This was the dawn of Japan’s “bullet train” era, widely regarded as the defining symbol of the country’s astonishing recovery from the trauma of World ... and west to cities such as ...

My wife studied geological maps to see ... swathes of the city. Modern brick buildings constructed along European lines fell apart. The aftermath led to the drawing up of Japan's first quake ...

Since Japan sees the sun rise 16 hours before California, we fly backwards in time. Twenty-five hours in transit, leaving ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Oct 18 (Reuters ... in many other ways", he told Reuters from his office, filled with maps of the city, newspaper clippings and pamphlets about the blast and its aftermath.