Any visitor to the city of Shizuoka, a medium-sized city in the belly of Japan’s main island of Honshu, might turn a corner ...

He turned his family’s lumber business into a manufacturer of model kits that won global popularity for their quality and ...

Tamiya Shunsaku, who turned his father's company into a global model brand, died on July 18 at 90. Known for detailed plastic ...

Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining The site encompasses a series of twenty three component parts, mainly located in the southwest of Japan.

In 1959, Tamiya began making plastic models, focusing on high quality work and elegant box designs by Japanese illustrator Shigeru Komatsuzaki (1915-2001).

Shunsaku Tamiya, chairman of Japanese plastic model kit maker Tamiya Inc., known for its radio-controlled cars and Mini 4WD ...

A 61-year-old man died in Long Island, New York, after being pulled into an MRI by a metal chain he was wearing. The shocking ...

Toho Animation has released a new trailer for Kaiju No. 8 Season 2, and it’s packed with everything fans have been waiting for. With the Summer 2025 anime season already stacked with returning ...

Kaiju No. 8 is one of the major franchises returning for new episodes this Summer, and now fans have gotten a new look at the ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter killer,” was sentenced to death in 2020 for the killings in 2017 of the nine victims, most of whom had posted suicidal thoughts on social media. He ...

No fentanyl had been seized at Japan's borders in the six years through 2024, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Friday, after a media report alleged a Chinese group in Japan smuggled ...

US Marine sentenced to 7 years in prison for sexual assault in Japan The sexual assault case is the latest to strain relations between residents of Japan's Okinawa Islands and U.S. servicemembers.