Escape the crowds and visit 3 of Japan’s lesser-known treasures: Taketomi Island’s beaches, Yamaguchi’s history and Nasu’s ...

Masahiro Nakai, a former leader of Japan's once-hugely popular boy band SMAP, reached a costly settlement with a woman over an alleged sex assault.

Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation from intense heat due to metamorphism. Researchers tackled this by using ...

There’s no bigger, more fervently anticipated event in Japan than cherry blossom season, but unfortunately the pretty-in-pink ...

A Pokemon fan creates a map of where some early game regions would fit on the actual map of Japan and shares their handiwork ...