A world heritage listing - alongside new sparkling and fruity 'cocktail' types of sake - will be the beginning of a ...

Hours after a Jeju Air plane crash-landed and burst into flames, killing 179 people on board in the worst aviation disaster ...

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died.

Fireworks are seen over Mount Wakakusa alongside the ritual burning of the mountain with Kohfukuji Temple's five-story pagoda ...

Ginzan Onsen, a popular Japanese hot spring town known for its scenic snowy views, has begun limiting entry to day trippers ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family waved from a balcony window to throngs of New Year’s well-wishers, some shouting, ...

Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman in Toki in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, has become the country's oldest person ...

Pounding and eating mochi offers good luck, health, prosperity and happiness.

Work to make round rice cakes for New Year is in full swing at Yamada Mochi Honten rice cake shop in Nagoya's Mizuho Ward on ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers have made it clear they're hoping to be Japan's team for the foreseeable future. That plan appears to be working. Murakami announced that the 2025 season will be his final ...

according to the Japan National Tourism Organization. In May, Fujikawaguchiko, a small town at the base of Mount Fuji, had to erect a large black net to block the view of a popular photo spot ...