Taiwan on Wednesday exported its first-ever shipment of brown-marbled groupers to Japan in the culmination of an eight-year program to obtain food safety certification for the fish from Tokyo. The ...

A major Japanese credit card company plans to introduce touch payments for public transportation tickets across Japan in 2026 ...

TOKYO - All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Airlines (JAL) announced further flight cancellations for Feb 7, as heavy snowfall ...

MUMBAI: Hip-hop/R&B-inspired girl group XG has announced that they will be holding Latin American shows in Mexico and Brazil ...

These real cities in Japan served as the major inspiration for some of the Yakuza franchise's most iconic locations.

The municipal government here plans to introduce QR-code printed tickets for the Fukuoka City Subway by fiscal 2028, ...

FUKUOKA -- An illusory "keep" of Fukuoka Castle, a designated national historic site, will again brighten the night skies ...

A Lunar New Year (Tet) celebration was held in Higashi-Hiroshima city in Japan’s Hiroshima prefecture on February 2 or the ...

Weather News announced that cherry blossom is expected to bloom nationwide earlier than usual. The earliest blooming is seen ...

On Jan. 28, 2025, a massive sinkhole suddenly opened in Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture, swallowing a two-ton truck and ...

A 19th-century wooden signboard that once adorned the now-lost Seonwonjeon Hall at Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul has ...

Starbucks Coffee Japan, Ltd. has announced it will introduce location-based pricing starting on Feb 15. Of the chain’s ...