Police have arrested the driver of a car that fell onto an expressway in central Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture, sending two ...

An in-house hospital team here has developed a language app for foreign patients to prevent delays in medical care and avoid ...

RICE is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval- shaped sticky Japonica grain, which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the ...

Toyota Motor Corp. on Friday said it will become the first major automaker to offer racing karts, in the hopes of nurturing a ...

Satellites can also help crop farmers and fishermen. Their images can be used to monitor the growth of rice plants and ...

Kagoshima finally dethroning the nation's top tea-growing prefecture sent shock waves through local producers. Until now, Shizuoka Prefecture had placed first since record-keeping began in 1959 ...

The central Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka, which has a trail to Mount Fuji, has enacted an ordinance amid risky behavior by some climbers. The new ordinance requires each hiker to pay an ...

A local government's decision to promote a bridge as the perfect spot for an Instagramable shot of Mt. Fuji has backfired, ...

Locals living near the ‘Mount Fuji dream bridge’ complain about illegal parking and excessive noise from tourists.

Residents are up in arms about disruptions caused by visitors looking to get the shot of a lifetime. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The call came after a Chinese student, who was rescued twice from Mount Fuji, said he went back the second time to try to ...

Despite being designed to attract tourists, the Mt Fuji Dream Bridge is facing backlash from locals overwhelmed by the surge ...