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

Accommodations with Western-style bedding feature plush hand ... Naoshima is arguably the most famous of Japan’s art islands and now there's even more reason to visit. When Naoshima Ryokan ...

Settsu, Osaka Pref., Jan. 28 (Jiji Press)--The western Japan city of Settsu marked the 50th anniversary this fiscal year since starting to give out its originally designed "randoseru" traditional ...

Priests dressed in traditional attire beat wooden boards with willow branches in front of a waterfall in Nachikatsuura in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 8, 2025, during a ritual at the ...

It was part of a larger movement in Japan to reclaim the cultural clout ... Blum said that Japanese collectors are more circumspect than Western collectors in their approach to choosing works ...

A new report from Japanese business journal Diamond Online has provided a rundown of companies with the highest average annual salaries in Western Japan for FY2024, and Nintendo is right up there ...

The suspect, a 25-year-old corporate worker from Otsu, the capital of the western prefecture of Shiga, is alleged to have kicked a rabbit on a promenade in the island around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

More than 800 flights were cancelled and tens of thousands of homes lost power as a slow-moving typhoon made landfall in western Japan early on Tuesday, prompting authorities to issue flood and ...

Early risers across Kagoshima Prefecture and other parts of western Japan spotted a fiery object slowly splitting apart as it traveled across the predawn sky around 4 a.m. on Dec. 19. An expert ...

A local civic group will launch another survey later this week to locate the remains of 183 people in an underwater coal mine that was flooded in an accident more than 80 years ago in the city of ...

This year's first auction of the winter delicacy fugu, or blowfish, has been held in Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in western Japan. Saturday's auction started with the ring of a bell ...

Armed with measuring devices, groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of ...