Here are some interesting places to visit in Saitama: ...

Much like the rest of the world, safety measures and stay-at-home protocol enacted due to the spread of the the novel coronavirus has put many in Japan up against economic hardship. Particularly ...

Influenza case counts in Japan in the week until Sunday were more than double the figure from the previous week.

On November 5, Tokorozawa City, just north of the border from Tokyo and home to the real-life Totoro’s forest and Tokorozawa Sakura Town, became the first place in Saitama Prefecture to install ...

A visitor enjoys the Lycoris radiata, known as the red spider lilies, at Gongendo Park in Satte, Saitama Prefecture of Japan, on Oct. 7, 2020. (Xinhua/Du Xiaoyi) A visitor takes photos of Lycoris ...

In what can only be described as the most insane move of all time, Japan’s Saitama prefecture (analogous to a state or province elsewhere) will be banning cell phone use by students at most of its ...

NARITA, Chiba -- Dozens of residents from Shiga, Wakayama and Nara recently dressed up in sackcloth outfits on a tour for a comedy movie that lampoons the west Japan prefectures, while pledging ...

Officer-escorted deportations doubled year-on-year in the first three months of Japan’s Zero Illegal Foreign Residents Plan, ...