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. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tokyo, Jan. 24 (Jiji Press)--The Bank of Japan decided to raise interest rates at its two-day monetary policy meeting that ended Friday, taking its policy rate to a level unseen in over 16 years.

New York, Jan. 23 (Jiji Press)--U.S. federal prosecutors sought Thursday a prison term of four years and nine months and a three-year probation after the release for Ippei Mizuhara, a former ...

Hong Kong/Beijing, Jan. 24 (Jiji Press)--A Chinese regional court on Friday held the first hearing in the trial of a 45-year-old man charged with fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese boy in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tokyo, Jan. 23 (Jiji Press)--Sony Group Corp. on Thursday held a media preview of Ginza Sony Park, a new commercial complex that will open in Tokyo’s upscale Ginza district on Sunday. The new ...

Tokyo, Jan. 23 (Jiji Press)--The Liberal Democratic Party group in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly said Thursday that 26 of its members will make corrections to their funds reports over a ...