A passenger on a bus connecting Nagasaki Airport to the city of Nagasaki was locked in the luggage compartment as the vehicle ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako held an online meeting with staff and users of an elderly care facility on Tsushima ...

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The most famous attraction is Takachiho Gorge – a deep chasm carved out by several explosions from the nearby Mount Aso, ...

FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- In Japan, there is a little-known network of "white post" pornography drop boxes that were installed on ...

The Emperor and Empress enjoyed a virtual visit from the Imperial Palace in Tokyo to an adult day care facility on Tsushima ...

It was followed by Kagoshima Prefecture, also in Kyushu, at 90.2 percent, and the northernmost main island of Hokkaido, at 89.9 percent. Nagasaki, another Kyushu prefecture, ranked eighth ...

Hay fever sufferers beware. Forecasters are predicting that cedar and cypress pollen is arriving earlier and in larger ...

Fusako Goto was a toddler in Fukuoka, Japan, when she started using chopsticks to eat. At age 65, she now teaches elementary school students in Litchfield how to use the Japanese eating utensils.

Prince Hisahito, the son of Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, visited the Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum ...

The aim of the policy is to enable local governments that will provide support, and the prefectures expected to receive help, to conduct joint disaster drills and other preparations.

Members of Japanese civil groups have strongly opposed the country's growing defense budget and the US commitment to ...