A prizewinning crime novelist calls for peace, and the Symphonia mounts a Beethoven masterpiece. Plus, a delicious Morikami fundraiser and more.

AT least 46 people have died after weeks of relentless snowfall buried towns, smashed transport links and sent deadly ice mounds crashing from rooftops across Japan. Fresh figures show the death toll ...

With record inbound arrivals, Chubu’s nine prefectures are uniting to highlight culture, cuisine and innovation for global travellers ...

(Yicai) Feb. 12 – All flights on 58 routes between China and Japan were canceled in the first seven days of the 40-day travel rush for the Chinese New Year holiday, with many passengers opting to go ...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday advised fans traveling to Tokyo for the upcoming World Baseball Classic (WBC) to take precautions against measles, influenza and infectious ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company has reactivated a nuclear reactor in the central prefecture of Niigata after a problem with an alarm brought its restart to a halt last month. The No.6 reactor at the ...

In Yukiguni, there's so much snow it's used as an ingredient. Snow Country (yukiguni) is the poetic name for the areas of Japan that receive the heaviest and longest lasting snowfall. At the heart of ...

Niigata University (NU) has a long institutional history, with origins going back some 150 years. Since our inauguration as a national university in 1949 under the new university system, we have ...

More than two weeks after the restart was suspended, Tokyo Electric Power Co. will resume operations for a second time on Feb. 9 at the No. 6 reactor of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in ...

Immigration laws of the destination will determine if you can leave the airport during a layover. Consider the length of your layover and allocate extra time for airport security upon return. Some ...

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...