Heat stroke poses a significant health risk, especially during extreme temperature conditions. While social media posts have ...

Koichi Hagiuda, the policy chief of the ruling ... some economy ministry officials are well aware of past failures. While Japan in the 1980s led the world in semiconductor production, it has ...

MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Runa Hoshiyama is starting ... s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant following the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. “Everyone fled after the earthquake ...

Are you one of 40 million travelers expected to visit Japan soon, but want a place less touristy than Tokyo and Kyoto?

MIYAZAKI, Japan -- Miyazaki prefecture, on Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu, is leveraging anime and manga for tourism promotion through public-private partnerships. One such initiative ...

The institution, Mie Yotsubagasaki Junior High School, is due to open in the Mie Prefecture capital of ... from various regions in the prefecture. (Japanese original by Ryoma Hara, Tsu Bureau) ...

ICHIKAWA, Chiba Prefecture--Princess Aiko played host to foreign diplomats at an event here to show off traditional duck hunting skills. The Shinhama Kamoba (Shinhama Imperial Wild Duck Preserve) ...

A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers.

The infrastructure ministry said Friday that emergency inspections on sewage pipes, which were conducted in the wake of last month's road cave-in in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, have found ...