All 12 Nippon Professional Baseball teams began their spring training workouts Saturday, with many of them in indoor ...

A western Japan city has begun offering overnight stays at Fukuyama Castle, a site dating back 400 years, as regional ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which we are living. These ...

Hayao Miyazaki is the face of Studio Ghibli, but this other founder is the director behind two of Studio Ghibli’s most ...

Japan's concerns over a potential U.S. retreat from the region have grown amid China's increasingly assertive military posture.

When Chiaki Kasai set out to make a documentary about Iwao Hakamata, a Japanese man who was acquitted in a retrial of a 1966 ...

Much like any other pop culture enthusiast, Studio Ghibli fans are eager to discover the Spirited Away real life locations in ...

Public health officials in Japan have reported a slight rise in the average weekly number of influenza patients per medical institution. Figures have exceeded the warning level in 40 of the country's ...

People in Japan commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which claimed over 6,400 lives.

The region is located adjacent the Nankai Trough, an undersea fault line running off the coast of Shizuoka prefecture near Tokyo to Miyazaki prefecture further southwest.