A small, old castle was found in the mountains of Hyogo Prefecture in March. Researchers found the castle using artificial ...

A comic book has sparked travel anxiety in East Asia with predictions that a “real catastrophe” will hit Japan this summer. The Future I Saw, a comic book by manga artist Ryo Tatsuki, has ...

Japan has started releasing wastewater into the ocean. But this isn’t the kind of wastewater that flows from city streets into stormwater drains. It’s treated nuclear wastewater used to cool ...

15:50 JST, June 21, 2025 TAKARAZUKA, Hyogo — From time to time, visitors to Kiyoshikojin Seichoji temple, or the road leading to it, in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, will encounter a strange sight: a ...

Kobe – Police referred Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito to prosecutors Friday on suspicion of vote-buying over his alleged payments to a public relations company for campaign activities in the ...

Japan's trade surplus with the United States shrank 4.7 per cent on-year in May - the first contraction in the past five months, even as imports from the country dropped 13.5 per cent.

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Japan’s stock market has been on a roller-coaster ride over the past year. Its benchmark Nikkei index reached an all-time high in July 2024, driven by corporate governance reforms and robust ...

Politics Japan readies $700m package to lure talent amid US brain drain EU, France, Netherlands also eyeing researchers fleeing Trump policies ...

TOKYO -- Tesla will expand its virtual power plant business in Japan nationwide, providing free storage batteries to companies and remotely managing them to help balance energy supply and demand ...

Hong Kong Airlines has decided to cancel its flights to southern Japan in July and August amid an unfounded rumor that a major earthquake and tsunami will hit the country this summer.

NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Toyota Motor Corp. has proposed to the government that it sell U.S.-made cars in Japan through its domestic dealership network, the ...