Looking for a weekend escape this summer? Here's a roundup of 10 of the best beaches near Tokyo. Slather on that sunscreen ...

The National Tax Agency announced on Tuesday that roadside land prices as of Jan. 1, 2025, rose 2.7% on average from the ...

Hot spring villages, scenic train rides, and a whole lot of steam. Here are the best onsen towns near Tokyo for a relaxing ...

Japan seeks to cut Nankai Trough Earthquake deaths by 80 percent Among measures to maintain lifelines, the proportion of important facilities with water and sewerage systems that have undergone ...

The government aims to reduce by 80% the number of deaths caused by collapsed houses and other direct damage from a massive earthquake along the Nankai Trough, according to a draft for a basic ...

Hi, I`m Lowell, a 69-year-old rookie sailor and a never-too-later! I had an aspiration to sail across an ocean solo before I ...

NUMAZU, Shizuoka -- Members of the calligraphy club at a local high school performed a live calligraphy demonstration on giant "tanzaku" paper strips for the upcoming Tanabata star festival at a ...

The "54th Ajisai (Hydrangea) Festival" is being held at Shimoda Park in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The park is a famous hydrangea spot where over 3 million flowers bloom. The bright flowers in ...

SHIMADA, Shizuoka Prefecture—While the declining birthrate has forced many public schools across Japan to close, some have found second lives as camp sites, artificial intelligence research centers, ...

AFP Tokyo: Japan spotted Chinese vessels sailing near disputed islets in the East China Sea for a record 216 consecutive days, Tokyo's coast guard said Sunday.

Tokyo: Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its kind, the director of a ...

But The Peninsula’s Japan Driving Experience has set out to change that. The hotel group’s first rally in the country in 2017 combined motorsport’s global appeal with the specificity and ...