Two cities in Oita Prefecture known for their onsen hot spring resorts have agreed to form a partnership aiming to develop ...

Akita Nairiku Line services resumed for a 61.2-kilometer section between Aniai and Kakunodate stations on Tuesday. Services ...

The growth rate of Chinese tourists to Japan in November was 3.0% year-on-year, a sharp decline from October’s growth rate of ...

Sixteen Japanese nationals suspected of being involved in fraud cases were detained by local authorities in Sihanoukville, ...

Yomiuri Shimbun file photoThe building of Tokyo Station The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] Tokyo rose to second ...

Workers busily make baskets with haru-no-nanakusa, or seven kinds of spring plants, at Ueshige Noen, a horticultural company ...

Crowding for outbound JR trains is expected to peak on Dec. 27 and inbound on Jan. 3, according to JR Group’s six companies.

The government has launched efforts toward public-private collaboration with Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia to ...

The Israeli Embassy sent a letter of protest to the Nagano prefectural government after a hotel operator in the prefecture ...

Panda fans flocked to the Ueno Zoological Gardens in Taito Ward, Tokyo, on Tuesday, following the announcement that its twin ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department have found that the power to the emergency button receiver was turned off in the ...

Former Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa, who resigned over an affair involving multiple hotel visits with a married male employee, ...