Visitors looking for the "real Japan" may find it on a new long trail two hours from Tokyo that shows off the country's ...

Makino Tomitaro, considered the father of Japanese botany, donated cherry blossom saplings to the town of Sakawa in his home prefecture of Kochi ... is listed as one of Japan's official top ...

In years past, relatively few international visitors to Japan made the trip to Kochi Prefecture, an area on the island of Shikoku that rarely appears on lists of must-see destinations. But in ...

Two people died, and three others were missing after a fishing boat with 20 people aboard capsized off Ibaraki Prefecture in eastern Japan early Monday, the local coast guard office said. Seventeen ...

There's an annual festival held in the Japanese prefecture of Kochi that culminates with a competition to see who can drink sake the fastest. Men get given 1.8 litres of sake in a big cup and ...

Working women in Japan can expect ... following Kochi Prefecture. The largest disparities behind Tochigi Prefecture of 72.1, 72.8 and 73.0 were logged for Ibaraki Prefecture, Nagano Prefecture ...

A 58-year-old man from Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, was arrested for selling modified Nintendo Switch consoles designed to play pirated games. According to Japanese media, this marks the first ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency ... covering 707 municipalities from Okinawa to Ibaraki prefectures, after a magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck off Miyazaki Prefecture in the Hyuganada Sea on Aug ...

There's an annual festival held in the Japanese prefecture of Kochi that culminates with a competition to see who can drink sake the fastest. Men get given 1.8 litres of sake in a big cup and women ...