A JR express train was filled to 60-percent capacity when it left Sapporo Station for Shimukappu in the central part of ...
One of the four Kagaya ryokan inns damaged in the Noto Peninsula earthquake last year will reopen before the others in winter ...
There was zero hesitation when Yuichi Matsumoto accepted his new role after Brazilian baseball officials offered him the ...
Firefighters on the morning of Feb. 27 continued battling the latest forest fire here that has spread to several locations ...
SEOUL--North Korea has deployed additional troops to Russia, but the scale of the contingent was not immediately known, South ...
WASHINGTON--U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday declined to comment in response to a question about whether the United ...
Breweries were forced to rise from the ashes of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in a devastated area that once boasted of ...
KYOTO—Geisha served tea beneath a cloud of pink petals at Kitano Tenmangu shrine’s plum blossom festival, which commemorates ...
Hundreds of residents in two cities in Iwate Prefecture were ordered to evacuate on Feb. 25 after a mountain fire broke out ...
For day visitors, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, imposes the Miyajima Visitor Tax, while four villages in Okinawa ...
The nation’s first freight-only Shinkansen bullet train is expected to go into service between Tokyo and Morioka this autumn.
Shumai is a staple of my “skate bento” boxes. On cold days, put them in an insulated container. “Yummy!” You can see the ...