Japan's Izu Peninsula is home to delicious seafood, beautiful coastal scenery, and relaxing onsens. Here's how to plan a visit.

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The Niigata City Board of Education is starting to serve school lunch to every student at all municipal junior high schools ...

The 10% base tariff will be imposed on 123 countries and territories, while 60 will pay more. Thirty-two trading partners ...

Hana Kusumoto is a reporter/translator who has been covering local authorities in Japan since 2002. She was born in Nagoya, Japan, and lived in Australia and Illinois growing up. She holds a ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 on the Richter Scale jolted Japan's Kyushu on Wednesday at 7:34 pm (IST), the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said.

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural ... gatherings on cold mornings alongside the lake. The map locates Lake Suwa, and the city of Suwa, on its ...

Tucked away in the mountain range of the Saga Prefecture, on the western island of Kyushu, Ureshino is home to some of Japan’s most coveted onsens, run by more than 30 hotels and ryokans ...

TOKYO, March 27 (Reuters) - Japan's biggest power generator JERA and France's EDF said on Thursday they would merge their power trading operations in Japan under the umbrella of their Singapore ...

For a country as safe and orderly as Japan, the terrorist attack was an unimaginable shock. It came just two months after the Great Hanshin earthquake, a 6.9-magnitude disaster that killed more ...