The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum has had more visitors this fiscal year than ever before. As of Feb. 6, more people from ...

Japan's Yuto Totsuka won his first Olympic gold medal in the men's snowboard halfpipe at the Milan Cortina Winter Games on F ...

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The Japanese Embassy in Russia opened one visa application center each in Moscow and St. Petersburg on Feb. 12, amid a sharp ...

A new crew rocketed toward the International Space Station on Friday to replace the astronauts who returned to Earth earl ...

U.S. restaurant chain Anna Miller's will reopen in Japan for the first time in three years on Friday, with its distinctive staff unif ...

The Nagasaki Lantern Festival, where lanterns illuminate the winter night sky over the city of Nagasaki, began on February 6. At Minato Park, people c ...

What happened to over 10,000 rice vouchers worth about 4.5 million yen (approx. $29,000) in Beppu, Oita Prefecture?

LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) -- A new exhibit opening to the public Saturday at a Los Angeles museum showcases Studio Ghibli's "Ponyo" with over 120 pieces of original ephemera from the creation of the 2008 ...

The advisory panel to Japan's justice minister on Thursday submitted an outline of proposed amendments to the criminal ...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has claimed victory in the country's first election since the 2024 uprising, positioning it ...

Japan's main opposition force, the Centrist Reform Alliance, elected 54-year-old Junya Ogawa as its new head on Friday, as ...