The Tragedies of Mudan and Ryukyu,” a seven-years-in-the-making documentary exploring a pivotal 1870s incident that reshaped East Asian geopolitics, will world premiere as the opening film of Japan’s ...

Heavy snowfall has battered a wide area of Japan, especially the Hokuriku region along the Sea of Japan coast. This video ...

A magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck Japan’s Kyushu region late Monday ... either by something falling into the ocean or by displacing the land underneath. Tsunamis occur globally but are most ...

Nobumasa Kinugasa used to dream about an NHL career, only to have the Pacific Ocean and minimal professional hockey heritage in his homeland get in the way. Still, the native of Kobe, Japan ...

Due to the coldest wave of the season, the Japanese archipelago experienced heavy snow mainly on the Sea of Japan coast Feb.

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck southwest Japan on Monday, the country's Meteorological Agency has said. The earthquake hit at 9.19 pm local time (3:19 pm CET), it added. Tsunami warnings were ...

Sean Hu’s “Ocean Elegy: The Tragedies of Mudan and Ryukyu ... will world premiere as the opening film of Japan‘s Cinema at Sea – Okinawa Pan-Pacific International Film Festival.

A record number of visitors came to Japan in 2024, thanks to surging post-pandemic global tourism and a decline in the yen that’s making the island nation an attractive and affordable destination.

TOKYO -- Japan welcomed a record 36.87 million tourists in 2024, up 47.1% from the previous year thanks to the weak yen, according to data released Wednesday by the Japan National Tourism ...

Professor of Ocean and Climate Dynamics, Georgia Institute of Technology The oceans are heating up as the planet warms. This past year, 2024, was the warmest ever measured for the global ocean ...

Japan's defence chief says if his country's upgraded Mogami design is chosen, it will enhance cooperation and interoperability with Australia and the United States. Japan's defence chief says ...

TOKYO – Record numbers of tourists flocked to Japan in 2024, figures showed on Jan 15, as the weak yen bolstered the appeal of the “bucket list” destination despite overcrowding complaints ...