Arana says Dodger fever has gripped baseball fans across Japan, where two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani’s mug adorns ads for everything from sunscreen to 7-11. A crowd of Japanese fans followed a ...

Then, he got an invitation he never expected. In early December, Roberts returned to the place of his birth, traveling to the Japanese city of Naha on the small Pacific island of Okinawa to ...

SAN FERNANDO, LA UNION, Philippines — Japan’s Defense Minister Gen Nakatani is in the Philippines for his first official visit to the country since taking office in October, as part of efforts to ...

Kenro Izu, who grew up in Japan but has lived in New York since the early 1970s, is widely known both for his accomplishments as a photographer and for the organisation he established, Friends Without ...

TOKYO — Japanese star Shohei Ohtani showed off some prodigious power in his return to the Tokyo Dome on Saturday night. In an exhibition game against the Yomiuri Giants, the three-time MVP ...

Twelve divers died or disappeared during scuba expeditions off the Izu Peninsula between 2013 and 2022, according to Japan Coast Guard figures. Four were off the Jogasaki Coast, five off Cape ...

KAWAZU, Shizuoka Prefecture--A cherry blossom festival held here as a harbinger of early spring in the Izu Peninsula is now under way, but ironically not many flowers are open due to cold weather.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and two key opposition parties — both eager to have their signature policies reflected in the fiscal 2025 budget — are in an all-out battle of nerves as the ...

The Japanese passport is one of the strongest in the world, but only around 17% of the population holds one, considerably lower than the figure in many Western countries, government data shows.

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In this episode of CYCLE AROUND JAPAN Highlights, we will recommend a journey that you may start cycling from Tokyo to Izu-Oshima, a volcanic island located about 100 kilometers south of the ...