A Shinto shrine in Japan's western prefecture of Fukuoka has held a traditional ritual of collecting seaweed from the ocean and offering it before an altar to pray for navigational safety and a large ...

On consumption, the ministry left its assessments unchanged for 10 regions, while upgrading its view for Hokkaido.

Physical labor and traditional practices, long the hallmarks of coastal fishing operations in Japan, are falling by the ...

When caught committing crimes for economic gain in Japan, it’s common for the accused to say their motive was to obtain money ...

Among the varieties of fireworks in Japan, traditional handheld sparklers remain popular. Yet there are just three places where the ...

The iconic Doctor Yellow, a brightly colored train that has patrolled the Shinkansen tracks for 24 years, arrived at Tokyo ...

Rescue workers in Japan are trying to pull out a truck driver from a sinkhole that appeared on Tuesday and has since widened.

The blocks attracted a lot of media attention when the town first posted them on the app in April of last year.

The driver of the truck could communicate with rescue teams when his truck was first swallowed, but there are fears for his ...

Kitakyushu is the northernmost city on Japan’s Kyushu Island. IDC Frontier Inc., a subsidiary of SoftBank since 2018, opened ...