Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture was the nation’s top consumer of gyoza dumplings in 2024 for the second year in a row, ...

Three winters from now, Japan's snowy Myoko highlands will be home to a $1.4 billion mega-resort built by a Singaporean fund, ...

Its dark wood Edo-era houses are thought to be the inspiration for Oscar-winning animator Hayao Miyazaki’s ... rural idyll. Gifu prefecture’s homonymous capital city sits to the south and ...

In fact, only nine prefectures―Aomori, Ishikawa, Nara, Mie, Tottori, Shimane, Tokushima, Miyazaki and Oita ... Saitama and Chiba prefectures. In the capital alone, 479 tower over the skyline ...

A New Jersey mayor declared that his city is the “capital of Palestine” and “the fourth holiest city in the world” during the kickoff to Ramadan last month, footage shows. Paterson Mayor ...

St. Paul and Nagasaki, Japan. This was the first relationship of its kind between U.S. and Japanese (or any Asian) cities.

Miyazaki mangoes from Japan are now being grown in India. These expensive mangoes cost Rs 2,700 per kilogram internationally. With growing interest and demand, nurseries provide saplings to ...

Cambodia’s capital city is undergoing a major transformation as a new £1bn airport is set to open next year. Techo Takhmao International Airport near Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh is set to ...

homelessness and immigration enforcement — with the constant threat that the federal government could reassert control over a capital city that has enjoyed a good deal of autonomy in recent decades.

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