Every winter Mount Rokko adds a snow park to its many leisure facilities. A short train ride and cable car from downtown Kobe ...

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On the first day of my first trip to Japan, I hit my head on a doorway walking towards a talking toilet. This particular ...

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s attendance at the upcoming 55th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos ...

Aiko Ohno dives down in the cool waters off Japan’s Ise-Shima National Park ... Found on the eastern tip of Mie prefecture, Ise-Shima is a region where ancient traditions, spirituality and ...

The bridge, considered a symbol of Japan-Vietnam relations ... woven cloth imported from Hoi An to Matsusaka in modern-day Mie Prefecture inspired the development of striped cloth known as ...

International tourism to Japan has exploded in recent years, and while the official figure for 2024 is yet to be released it is now certain to be a new record in excess of the 31.9 million who ...

Police in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, have arrested a 42-year-old man after he kicked a police car, damaging its door, at a koban (police box). The incident occurred at around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, TBS ...

Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million.