Two-and-a-half years after evacuation orders were lifted in parts of Futaba, the municipal government is focused on ...

Night - Clear. Winds from WSW to SW at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 33 °F (0.6 °C). Mostly cloudy with a high of 47 °F (8.3 °C) and a 52% chance of precipitation. Winds variable ...

The global hit anime “Demon Slayer” (known in Japan as “Kimetsu no Yaiba”) is approaching its conclusion. The final story arc ...

Pollard stated that the study suggests the lead in both the scrap bronze and the added copper was unlikely to be of Japanese ...

The date of a traditional festival at a shrine in this western Japan city, which has been held on Aug. 16 every year for more ...

Waste receptacles were initially removed from the park in 1985 to prevent the deer from accidentally eating out of them, according to Nara Prefecture officials. Following their removal ...

As spring arrives, Japan's oldest private herb garden in Uda, Nara Prefecture, bursts into life. This program tells the story ...

Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs says a high-performance infrared camera has created a sharp image of an ancient mural painting at the Kitora burial mound in Nara Prefecture. Mural paintings ...

Unexpected detours, cultural wanderings and happy supermarket sprees are all part of the fun. Here's what our Japan road trip ...

Police in Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture, have arrested a 34-year-old woman on suspicion of parental neglect after she left her six-year-old daughter in a 24-hour supermarket late at night. According ...

Tsubosakadera temple in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, is known as a place where people can come to pray for eye diseases to be cured. Its main object of worship is a statue of the 11-faced ...