The annual Nagai Kurojishi Matsuri festival was held in Nagai, Yamagata Prefecture, on May 23, to pray for a good harvest and household safety.

A group of archaeological sites that tells the story of how a state was born and developed in ancient Japan is expected to be added to the World Cultural Heritage list. It is essential to widely share ...

Japanese political parties on Wednesday approved a proposal on measures to secure a sufficient number of Imperial Family members as the consensus of the country’s legislative branch.

The operator of Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture intends to apply for approval to extend or build runways under the land expropriation law, which allows the government to take private property for ...

Despite being called the “National Council on Social Security,” it must be said that the developments so far with this joint initiative involving the government and ruling and opposition parties are ...

Digital textbooks can now be recognized as official textbooks after a bill to revise the School Education Law and related laws was passed and enacted by a majority vote of both ruling and opposition ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Malaysian counterpart, Anwar Ibrahim, on Wednesday affirmed their cooperation to ensure stable supplies of liquefied natural gas from Malaysia to Japan ...

East Japan Railway Co., or JR East, on Tuesday unveiled “Luna Azul” as the name of its new overnight limited express train, set to debut in fiscal 2027.

The first group of sumo wrestlers taking part in an upcoming Paris exhibition tournament arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport on the outskirts of the French capital on Tuesday.

East Japan Railway Co., or JR East, said Tuesday it will discontinue magnetic short-distance tickets sold at all stations on its conventional lines and replace them with QR code tickets in spring 2027 ...

The “Hachimantai Dragon Eye” — a mystical natural phenomenon visible only in early summer — has opened near the summit of the 1,613-meter-high Mt. Hachimantai, located on the border of Iwate and Akita ...

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Tuesday adopted a bill that criminalizes vandalism of the Japanese national flag.