■Support for famous mountaineers By providing weather forecasts, Inokuma supports Hirotaka Takeuchi, who became the first Japanese mountaineer to conquer all fourteen 8,000+ meter peaks with a ...

Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui will join a long-term mission at the International Space Station possibly in July on a journey arranged by NASA, the U.S. space agency said. In his second trip to the ISS ...

To mark one year since the death of Tan Tan, who was the oldest giant panda in Japan, Oji Zoo in Kobe plans to hold events in ...