TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture--The city mayor here will receive his retirement ... According to Tsukuba officials, this is the first time in Japan’s history that a mayor’s retirement payout ...

A nime has a special way of pulling us into incredible worlds, and the best anime out there keep us hooked with their ...

Wildfires have hit several regions in western Japan, injuring at least two people, forcing dozens of residents to evacuate ...

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

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen. By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Suwa ...

Lawmakers in the Japanese city of Kyoto have approved a plan to significantly increase the accommodation tax for visitors from March next year in a bid to curb overtourism. The city assembly of ...

Wildfires have hit several regions in western Japan, injuring at least two people, forcing dozens of residents to evacuate and damaging homes as hundreds of firefighters battled the widening blaze in ...

Officials in the western Japanese city of Okayama have lifted all the evacuation orders that they issued to residents. They say the wildfires have been brought under control. On Friday morning ...

Masaki Kashiwara received the honor, often regarded as the Nobel Prize in mathematics, for work that combined different mathematical fields to solve challenging problems.

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...

As far back as the 14th century, the lush backyard of the contemporary Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo was called Tsubakiyama, or ...

Masao Miki, mayor of Suzuka City in Nagano Prefecture, apologizing for the city passing off grapes produced in Yamagata Prefecture as being grown locally to reward donors to its hometown tax program.