TOKYO -- A Japan land ministry official was surprised that its real estate information website launched on April 1 has earned more than 10 million page views in the first six months.

Suka SNS account Economic YouTuber Shuka apologized for exposing the map 'C of Japan (sea of japan)' during a live broadcast.

TOKYO — Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when one of its spacecrafts without astronauts successfully made a soft landing on the lunar surface early Saturday. Howeve… ...

Japan’s space agency said Friday that its robotic spacecraft achieved a soft landing on the moon but that its solar cells were not generating power, forcing the vehicle to rely on batteries.

Land reform has broken down the prewar imbalance under which only 30% of the farmers owned the land they farmed: by last year, only about 1,200,000 acres were tenant-farmed v. 6,000,000 in 1945.

Japan lends itself to this treatment since about seventy-five per cent of the land is mountainous and the lowlands are mainly peripheral.

Land prices rose across Japan for a second straight year, with values in rural residential areas ending a three-decade decline, buoyed by low interest rates, factory construction and a tourism ...

Japan has recounted its islands – and discovered it has 7,000 more than it previously thought. Digital mapping by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) recently found there to be ...

Japan landed its Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon, or SLIM, craft on the surface of the Moon on Jan. 20, 2024. Despite a power issue with the lander, the event holds both political and ...

NHK has released the ' 2024 Prefectural Land Price Survey Map, ' a map that summarizes land price changes across Japan. It's a very interesting map that shows things like 'land prices are rising ...

It’s hard to believe the nation that invented the lithium-ion battery, the hybrid car and solar-powered calculator has fallen so far behind.

Japan’s First Soft Landing Japan launched the SLIM mission to the moon in September. On Friday, the uncrewed spacecraft successfully landed near Shioli Crater, though its solar arrays are not ...