Tokyo Fashion Week designers share their favorite spots for restaurants, cocktail bars, onsens and cherry blossom viewing across Tokyo.

Thousands of people from across the metro gathered at the Overland Park Convention Center this weekend for the return of Naka ...

Toko Koga has headed in two goals as Japan routed Philippines 7-0 to advance to the Women’s Asian Cup semifinals and secure a ...

A town in Japan has suspended plans to become a city after falling 311 residents short of the population threshold, ...

For decades, Kotoku Wamura was mocked for building an enormous floodgate in his village. But when a massive tsunami struck, his vision saved an entire town.

We’ve known for some time that Forza Horizon 6’s Japan is Playground Games’ largest and densest map to date. We’ve known, too, that Playground Games’ version of Tokyo City is set to be the biggest ...

Species documented in the Nankai Trough included 33 molluscs, 23 annelids, 11 arthropods, five ribbon worms, four echinoderms, three cnidarians, and one bryozoan — mollusks, worms, crustaceans, ...

According to the Tohoku region’s Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, kokeshi (koh-keh-shee) originated in the late Edo ...

Fifteen years after the 2011 nuclear disaster, color-coded radiation maps hang on the wall of Futabaya Ryokan, the family-run inn Tomoko Kobayashi operates in her near-deserted hometown in ...

Staff say “animal welfare is the top priority” following visitor concerns JIJI PRESS / AFP via Getty The zoo home of viral baby monkey Punch is responding to public concern about the health of its ...

In the past week, Punch—the baby Japanese snow monkey who was reportedly abandoned by his mother and was being raised by zoo staff—has become an unlikely international celebrity. The tiny macaque, ...

Masayoshi Takanaka, the Japanese king of spangly, summery jazz fusion, is headlining a massive festival in London this summer. The legendary Tokyo-born guitarist, composer and producer is set to ...