Take a break from the over-touristed Tokyo and head to one of this equally incredible but lesser-visited cities to see a ...

Canoe is paddled 140 miles (225km) across the open sea The journey is from Taiwan to Japan’s Yonaguni Island Research is reminiscent of famed 1947 ...

This is the fifth and last installment in a series of articles taking an in-depth look at industries with growth potential in ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

The damning indictments in two cases expose flaws in a system that prides itself on a 99.8 per cent conviction rate. Read ...

Much of Japan was gripped by sweltering heat on Saturday, with temperatures soaring to 35 degrees Celsius or higher especially in western parts of the country.

Japan's rainy season ended at the earliest date on record in the country's western regions, meteorologists said Friday, as ...

A remote island chain in southern Japan has been rattled by more than 470 earthquakes since Saturday, the national weather ...

As of the morning of June 26, 474 such earthquakes had been observed around the Tokara island chain. Read more at ...

With the future of Kyushu, as well as Yamaguchi and Okinawa prefectures in mind, this series takes an in-depth look at ...

Our species arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked worldwide, eventually reaching some of Earth’s most ...