A ceremony to pray for the success of the festival to commemorate Girls' Day on March ... is available on the Katsuura City Tourism Association's website (in Japanese). (Japanese original and ...

SENNAN, Osaka Prefecture--Yuma Yamamoto, 31, became the youngest city mayor in Japan after winning in a landslide here with 10,861 votes. His 80-year-old rival, Hiroaki Koyama, gained 2,744 ballots.

ASAHIKAWA, Hokkaido--A third party committee investigating suspicions of bullying at a junior high school in this northern Japan city concluded that a 14-year-old girl found frozen to death had ...