A northern city plans to promote Niigata Prefecture’s many local specialties--including its snow--at the Osaka Kansai Expo ...

NAGOYA—Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) plans to add luxurious, semi-private seating areas to the Tokaido Shinkansen by ...

With the price of rice skyrocketing, sake breweries are being left high and dry, struggling to procure raw ingredients as ...

Up to 67.6 percent of high school students do not know what “sexual consent” means or have heard the term but cannot explain it, a survey showed April 14.

The humble rice ball, eaten in Japan for thousands of years, is seemingly more popular now than ever, with specialty ...

The once-accessible process of designing a custom home is turning into a luxury option as Japan's carpenters join the growing ...

"Niseko is too expensive" is a sentiment propagated by more than a few news articles and TV programs that zeroed in on ...

Five high courts have ruled as unconstitutional provisions of the Civil Law and Family Register Law that do not allow ...

OSAKA--Osaka Kansai Expo 2025 kicked off April 12 with a spectacular opening ceremony in the presence of Emperor Naruhito, ...

Ibaraki Governor Kazuhiko Oigawa brought a powerful recruiting pitch with him last year when he flew to India.

In addition to the eye-catching architecture of the pavilions, the Osaka Expo will host “National Days” celebrating each of ...

After a three-and-a-half-hour interrogation, police officers wore down a 12-year-old girl and got her to “confess” to ...