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

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

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

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

Executives at a major home tutoring operator on June 25 apologized to Kumamoto Mayor Toshiharu Takaoka for an error in online ...

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

Chinese travellers to Japan are on the rise and a growing proportion are repeat visitors choosing culture- and nature-focused ...

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 ...

Weather authorities in Japan are urging caution against dangers including landslides, flooding in low-lying areas and swollen ...

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

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