Uneven integration of foreign residents in Japan highlights the need for comprehensive support, as under-resourced local ...

A cooperative in Niigata prefecture, Japan's top rice producing area, will increase its prepayment for the Koshihikari variety by 35 percent. The payment will rise to 23,000 yen, or around 161 ...

(Mainichi/Akiho Narimatsu) SAGA -- A Japanese school for international students opened at a famous inn in Saga Prefecture on Japan's Kyushu island. Students from other countries will study ...

Arizona's director of advanced scouting, Ken Nakagawa, has joined the Japan U19 team in Latvia to help with coaching and video scouting during the tournament from July 3-11. Nakagawa, an aspiring ...

THE DANCE MARKS THE START OF SPRING AND A PRAYER FOR A GOOD HARVEST IN GIFU PREFECTURE, JAPAN. IT’S EVEN BEEN DESIGNATED AN INTANGIBLE FOLK CULTURAL ASSET BY THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT. SO HOW DID ...

Trade negotiations between Japan and the United States are headed for an impasse with the two sides unable even to settle on a starting point for an agreement after two rounds of high-level ...

Japan has over 60 prisons, with more than 20 offering special facilities for foreign inmates with limited Japanese proficiency. Inmates with particularly poor Japanese skills are usually assigned to: ...

It’s finally come time for one of the bigger fighting game events of the year with EVO Japan 2025. The EVO championship fighting group is taking the best current fighting games to the Tokyo Big ...

For decades, an "extremely rare" fossil sat unidentified in Japan's Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in Hyogo Prefecture, the imprint of a large butterfly wing and body is now ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds variable at 3 to 6 mph (4.8 to 9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 52 °F (11.1 °C). Cloudy with a high of 76 °F (24.4 °C). Winds variable at 2 to 9 mph (3.2 to 14. ...

The T-4 training aircraft involved had reportedly only been airborne for two minutes after it departed Komaki Air Base for Nyutabaru Air Base in Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture when it disappeared ...