As the winter chill sets in, the production of traditional “washi” paper is in full swing at a historic workshop here.

TOKYO--Hey Shohei Ohtani, where is the fancy Porsche you hinted at giving your manager Dave Roberts if the Los Angeles ...

A frog holding a taro-leaf umbrella. A parade of frolicking animals. An Ukiyo-e style Mount Fuji. Giant waves. A Japanese ...

Chinese people’s perceptions of Japan have sharply declined, possibly due to a rising reliance on social media for ...

MINAMI-BOSO, Chiba Prefecture--A soft-serve milk ice cream topped with generous slices of raw whale meat. Anyone? Hanamaru ...

The hope here is that badly behaved foreign tourists have learned their lesson and there will be no need to block views of ...

The operator of the Harry Potter theme park in Tokyo is recalling replicas of the Godric Gryffindor Sword because possessing ...

KYOTO--Unseasonably high temperatures are playing havoc with the autumn foliage season that draws hordes of visitors to Kyoto ...

The Godzilla scarecrow was recognized by Guinness World Records as the “largest straw sculpture (supported) of a fictional ...

A gunshot rang out on a recent morning in a meadow in northern Japan. The brown bear slumped in the cage, watched by a ...

USJ announced it will open a “Donkey Kong Country” area themed on the world of Donkey Kong on Dec. 11. But the park operator ...

In the U.S. auto market, one of the largest in the world, EV sales increased only by 5.6 percent year-on-year. Europe saw ...