Overtourism is spoiling the country’s traditional draws – but its Three Great Gardens offer an opportunity to escape the ...

A research team, including Professor Naoto Tomioka of Okayama University of Science, has uncovered new genetic evidence challenging the long-standing "dual-structure model" of Japanese ancestry. By ...

Households battling inflation and other monetary stressors can breathe a little easier as 24-hour community food initiatives ...

The Shizuoka Prefecture city of Mishima ranked first among municipalities nationwide in four categories for selling bulky ...

Japan faces urban population decline by 2035, with ageing societies challenging city sustainability and prompting calls for ...

With confirmation of a four-goal defeat in the East Midlands against Brentford, Leicester officially set an unwanted record after a horrid run of form. The Foxes are the first sid ...

The 2025 Major League Soccer (MLS) regular season officially gets underway on Saturday, with Inter Miami welcoming New York ...

Last month’s deadly wildfires have prompted exhibitors to reschedule exhibitions and parties, and launch fundraisers for ...

By 2025, Sendai, Yokohama, and Kumamoto will join this group, followed by Nagoya, Sapporo, Hiroshima, and Okayama by 2035. While some larger cities will avoid contraction by absorbing people from ...

In Kurashiki city’s Mabi district in Okayama Prefecture, rivers were flooded in succession. About 30 percent of the district was inundated, claiming 51 lives in the flooding. In Saka and ...