Japan captain and attacker Yuki Ishikawa spoke of his pride in winning the European volleyball Champions League upon his ...

Every summer and autumn, over 200 communities across Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture hold matsuri featuring towering kiriko, floats carrying elongated paper lanterns. The first of these ...

Japan’s festivals “come in threes,” as this series shows. In this entry we introduce matsuri spanning Japan from north to south that feature brilliant lanterns shining against the nighttime sky.

Witch Watch is now ready to continue through the Summer 2025 anime schedule with the second half of its debut season, and ...

Sweet, warm and buttery describes the newest eatery on Route 16, or Base Side Street in Fussa, Japan, to a T. Old New American Style — a cafe inside a 1975 Airstream travel trailer — occupies a spot ...

One of the biggest standouts from the Spring 2025 anime schedule has officially announced it's coming back for Season 2 ...

From sleek urban retreats like Aman Tokyo to luxury resorts like Park Hyatt Niseko Hanazono in Hokkaido, these are the 23 best hotels in Japan to book on your next trip.

Humans began domesticating animals like sheep and goats some 10,000 years ago, a couple of millennia after we learned how to grow cereal crops. The domestication of the dog, however, is much older and ...

With Monday marking 18 months since the Noto Peninsula Earthquake struck Ishikawa, Toyama, and Niigata Prefectures, claiming ...

The National Tax Agency announced on Tuesday that roadside land prices as of Jan. 1, 2025, rose 2.7% on average from the ...

The upcoming anime This Monster Wants to Eat Me, which is due out in October, dropped a new trailer and visual.