Japan's greenhouse gas emissions fell by 4% to a record low in the fiscal year ended March 2024, government data showed on ...

Bereaved families and others paid their respects to victims of one of the nation’s deadliest railway accidents that occurred ...

Fans of the four remaining giant pandas at Adventure World here and local businesses are bracing for their return to the ...

NARA—The species resembling a "dragon" mummy that has long been kept in the Shosoin Repository here, a World Heritage site, ...

Hoshino Resorts Inc. on April 22 announced the launch of a new brand called “Lucy” after the famed English traveler Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904) to serve as bases for mountain tourism.

Sophia Fukushima thought she was “rather bad” at writing essays, but last summer she decided to put into words something that ...

SASEBO, Nagasaki Prefecture—Huis Ten Bosch Co. announced that its amusement park here is opening a new Miffy-themed area on June 21. Miffy's creator, Dick Bruna, was from The Netherlands and ...

We mourn the death of a leader who continued calling for the resolution of issues that crossed borders, such as global warming and nuclear weapons, by standing with the weak in a world now divided by ...

Japan’s largest test plant for direct air capture (DAC) technology, which combats global warming by extracting carbon dioxide ...

Ramen is for everyone—even royalty as King of Denmark Frederik X proved when he popped into an Ippudo in Tokyo's Ginza ...

Pyrotechnic artworks from the Omagari fireworks festival here will illuminate the sky over the 2025 Osaka Kansai Expo venue ...

BANGKOK—As foreign tourism becomes increasingly important to the Japanese economy, Thai tourists stand out from the crowd by ...