Newsweek 's weekly update maps aircraft carrier movements in the Indo-Pacific region. As of March 14, the locations of 12 vessels were publicly available via military disclosures, as well as via ...

On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake and a subsequent tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. In 2004, ...

Note FIRST only. Topographical map of the area around the Japanese cities of Himeji and Okayama, on Honshu Island. Shows administrative boundaries, populated places, roads with distances marked, ...

Policy introduced by town’s draconian former mayor is overturned by country’s Fair Trade Commission which orders workers be ...

These are Niseko problems. The powder capital of Asia, and some say the world. Japan, long revered as a powder Mecca, has ...

The Japan section focuses on the country away from Honshu (Japan’s largest island), particularly Hokkaido and its indigenous Ainu people as well as the Okinawan archipelago.

My hometown is close to Nozawa Onsen (a ski resort on Japan’s Honshu island) that has been battered by snow this year). The snow is very, very wet and heavy there. I can ski much better in ...

Consider this your ultimate guide to exploring one of Japan’s most accessible off-the-beaten-path experiences—with a ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...