On Feb. 3, 1942, which was during World War II, the flooding accident occurred in a tunnel located 1 kilometer away from the ...

Tokyo, Jan. 25 (Jiji Press)--Japan will not participate as an observer in a meeting in the United States in March of signatories to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, government and ...

Tokyo, Jan. 25 (Jiji Press)--Fuji Television Network Inc. is facing management turmoil over its poor handling of a sex scandal involving popular television personality Masahiro Nakai, who has ...

TeamLab Planets in Toyosu, Tokyo, operated by the renowned digital art collective TeamLab, drew over 2.5 million visitors in 2023 alone. This remarkable feat earned the museum a Guinness World ...

Tokyo, Jan. 23 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese Electrical, Electronic & Information Union said Thursday that its member unions will request a pay scale hike of at least 17,000 yen per month in the 2025 ...

Cherry blossoms are the stars of Japanese spring, and the somei yoshino is the most common variety, accounting for around 90% of all sakura. These start blooming from late March in the southwest ...

Fukunaga Takeshi Born in Date, Hokkaidō, in 1982. Moved to the United States in 2007, where he majored in film at City University of New York Brooklyn College. His first feature film, Out of My ...

Toyama is off the main route for most visitors to Japan, but the New York Times picked the city in its list of 52 Places to Go in 2025. Here, we zoom in on where to go and what to eat. The New ...

Tokyo, Jan. 22 (Jiji Press)--Riken, a Japanese government-backed research institute, said Wednesday that it has launched the development of a successor to its Fugaku supercomputer. Riken aims to ...

Diners in Japan looking to savor the flavors of the historic Silk Road need look only as far as southern Saitama. Just a short car ride west from Kita Urawa Station, on National Highway 17, is ...

Silicon Valley, Jan. 23 (Jiji Press)--"Black Box Diaries," a documentary film directed by Japanese journalist Shiori Ito, received an Academy Awards nomination for documentary feature film Thursday.

Tokyo, Jan. 25 (Jiji Press)--The Bank of Japan is on course to raise the policy interest rate past the so-called 0.5 pct barrier, unbroken for almost 30 years, if policymakers become confident ...