Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently boarded one of the UK's four nuclear-armed submarines for a photo call as part of his ...

Japan's technological and scientific contributions to the world are undeniable. From the invention of the blue LED that ...

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its ...

TOKYO >> On an island off the coast of Nagasaki, ruins that seem on the verge of collapse stand clustered behind a high ...

In the fall of 2020, the town of Tsushima’s Watazumi Shrine was damaged by a typhoon that struck the area, destroying one of its torii gates that rises out of the bay waters adjacent to the shrine. In ...

Hisashi Fujioka, a renowned scientist, malaria researcher, and electron microscopist affiliated with Case Western Reserve University (OH, USA), passed away on Jan 23, 2025, aged 75 years.

The Watatsumi Shrine in Tsushima City, Nagasaki, has announced a ban on all visitors following a “grave and unforgivable act ...

Japan is home to 27,000 hot springs sources, but overtourism has reduced some of the country’s onsen water supply to a record ...

Japan activated its Japan Self-Defense Force Joint Operations Command (JJOC) Monday, allowing its military to better conduct ...

Hashima Island in the Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, was once a thriving arm of the country's industrial revolution - but ...

Four survivors of Japan’s “hostage justice” filed a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on March 24, contending that the Code ...

The new 4,000 yen fee (USD $27) is double the amount of the original "tourist tax" that was instituted in 2024.