The final qualifying round of women's ice hockey for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics was held in the city of Tomakomai, ...

The number of glass eels, or juvenile Japanese eels, in rivers in Hokkaido appears to have increased in recent years, ...

Crispy, buttery, and packed with flavor—this might just be the best Japanese cookie ever! From delicate matcha-infused ...

At least 91 flights to and from New Chitose Airport in Japan's Hokkaido were canceled due to temporarily strong winds and snow, local media reported ...

HOKKAIDO (TR) – Hokkaido Prefectural Police have arrested a 69-year-old American man in Japan as a tourist over the alleged assault of a male staff member at a commercial sex parlor in Sapporo City ...

Japanese fighter aircraft intercepted a Russian spy plane over the waters west of the nation on Tuesday, while a suspected ...

A California woman, Kristina Schmidt, suffered a serious injury due to ego-lifting at the gym, causing her hip bone to break ...

Known best for his musical composition for in Isao Takahata’s 1998 film ‘Grave of the Fireflies’, Michio Mamiya passed away ...

While his death was initially reported by The Asahi Shimbun in December, it has only now reached a global audience following ...

109 fishermen have been safely rescued after being stranded on a drifting ice floe east of Russia in the Sea of Okhotsk. French Prime Minister François Bayrou has said he plans to sue French outlet ...

Michio Mamiya, the celebrated composer whose poignant scores, most notably for Studio Ghibli's emotionally devastating film ...

In 1996 then Consul General Takeshi Kagami came to Chillicothe to speak about Dun and his influence on Japan. During this visit, he spoke at Ohio University Chillicothe to a group of locals wanting to ...