The boat tour season here opened in March, taking passengers through an ancient pilgrimage route that offers spectacular ...

The economy ministry proposed a set of new rules on March 24 for a planned regulatory change that could allow nuclear plants ...

Seasonal yellow sand is expected to arrive over a wide area from northern to western Japan on March 25 and 26, adversely ...

To promote overseas travel, the Japan Association of Travel Agents has launched a campaign to subsidize some of the cost ...

Two-and-a-half years after evacuation orders were lifted in parts of Futaba, the municipal government is focused on ...

Overseas tourists are flocking to lesser-known destinations and novel services in a district on Japan’s northernmost main ...

When Yuki Kawamura flipped a long underhanded pass to a teammate, who went on to slam a thunderous dunk, the play-by-play ...

The Defense Ministry established the Joint Operations Command on March 24 to unify command of Japan’s Ground, Maritime and ...

Wildfires in Okayama and Ehime prefectures continued to rage on March 24 after evacuation orders were issued for nearly 3,000 ...

The Asahi Shimbun started “Sakura Map,” a special page showing where cherry blossoms are blooming in Japan and photos of pink ...

The former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani who was supposed to begin his nearly five-year prison term on Monday, ...

Mohammed Mansour, an Asahi Shimbun correspondent, was killed along with his family in an Israeli missile attack at their home in Gaza on March 24.