Asakusa lies in the Shitamachi area of Tokyo, which refers to the more traditional, working class part of the city. As such, Asakusa can be perceived as the old town of Tokyo. Here, you'll find ...

Typhoons, earthquakes and torrential downpours have caused large-scale damage throughout Japan, but now the city is using a ...

Tokyo’s journey from Edo to the world’s largest urban area is a story of geography, history, and rapid modernization. 🌆 In ...

The fire, in a forested area of the coastal city of Ofunato, killed at least one person and prompted evacuation orders for ...

Though some events will be held elsewhere in Japan, the majority of the Olympic venues are situated in Tokyo within one of two main clusters: the Heritage Zone, an area in the heart of the city which ...

A powerful earthquake rocked the Kanto region early on Thursday morning, and authorities are warning the area's millions of ... Chiba Prefecture neighboring Tokyo at a depth of 40 kilometers.

A man arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing a woman while she was apparently in mid-livestream near JR Takadanobaba ...

shaking buildings in Tokyo. The quake had an intensity of "strong 5" on Japan's intensity scale of 7 in Kisarazu city in Chiba. There was no danger of a tsunami after the quake, NHK said.

Celebrating its “distinctive transparent character and capacity to engage with the public in the largest metropolitan area in the world ... the architect of Tokyo’s City Hall and the ...

Firefighters were Tuesday battling Japan's worst wildfire in half a century, which has left one dead and forced the ...

The city-owned land beside the Sumida River is ... bigger warehouse-like facility in another area of Tokyo Bay called Toyosu. After the market’s buildings were demolished, the empty lot was ...