Photo credit ©Ishikawa DMO Through endless recognition and collaborations, Buzan Fukushima's craft has become one of the most sought-after ...

A couple in Tokyo have been arrested for allegedly selling pirated discs featuring performances by Japanese pop band Mrs. Green Ap ...

Planning your first trip to Japan? These essential travel tips cover everything from etiquette to apps—what to know before you go in 2025.

The 50th and final liftoff of Japan's H-2A rocket launched the GOSAT-GW satellite on Saturday, June 28, 2025.

Japan executes ‘Twitter killer’ who killed and dismembered nine Takahiro Shiraishi’s victims included young women considering suicide, whom he lured to his home using social media and murdered.

Japan has executed a man convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, in the country's first use of the death penalty since 2022. Takahiro Shiraishi — dubbed the "Twitter killer ...

Airport staff used a car to chase it away and closed the runway again, with the bear still at large somewhere in the facility.

US Marine sentenced to 7 years in prison for sexual assault in Japan The sexual assault case is the latest to strain relations between residents of Japan's Okinawa Islands and U.S. servicemembers.

Japanese officials are dismissing alarm over the prediction of a July “catastrophe” in a comic book, “The Future I Saw,” which is deterring some summer tourists.

Despite being illegal, the transactional sex trade in Japan is disturbingly mainstream, hidden beneath the thinnest possible veneer.

Brig. Gen. James Dooghan, an Afghanistan war veteran, assumed command of U.S. Army Japan at Camp Zama.