Lockers at train stations had been largely deserted and rendered useless during the commuter-depleted COVID-19 pandemic.

OSAKA—As Osaka prepares to host the 2025 Osaka ... The tourist expressed his satisfaction with the variety of sake and pickles he enjoyed at a standing bar in the city’s bustling Minami ...

Sixty years after the world's first high-speed train launched, rail enthusiast Paul Carter rides the bullet train along ...

Ad Paid and Presented by Japan National Tourism Organization Discover Hokuriku's gastronomic landscape: From oceanic ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An interpreter, left, translates for Junichiro Ozawa, head of Ozawa Sake Brewery, third left, and his worker ...

OME, Japan (AP) — Deep in a dark warehouse the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks, each holding more than 10,000 liters (2,640 gallons) of the Japanese rice wine that is the product of ...

An advisory panel to UNESCO has recommended Japan's traditional knowledge and skills for making sake and "shochu" distilled spirits be included in its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, putting their ...

What comes to mind when you think of Shiga Prefecture in Japan’s Kansai region? Perhaps it’s the country’s largest lake, Lake ...

No.5 seed Nadia Podoroska defeated Yuan Yue in a 2-hour, 44-minute first-round tie at the Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships, triumphing in the last two games despite seeing a 5-2 ...