Major League Baseball will stage its biggest standalone international event in league history 25 years after playing its first regular season games in Japan with the MLB Tokyo Series presented by ...

PIA Corporation has been announced as the official commercial hospitality provider and agent for the World Athletics ...

Snow and slushy rain were forecast in Tokyo and mountainous areas in the southern Kanto region over the weekend of March 8-9.

Apply to jobs in tourism, interpretation, teaching and more in this week's Top Jobs in Japan. If you’re looking to work in ...

While the country is having a banner ski season, exceptionally heavy snowfall has created challenges for resort workers.

As of July 2024, there were 5,187 female municipal assembly members in the country, or only 17.9% of the total, however.

According to 2016 data from the Japan Congress on Evangelism, 81 percent of Protestant churches in Japan have fewer than 50 ...

Drought in the mountainous areas of central and northeastern Japan is contributing to the spread of forest fires on a scale ...

As a classically trained flutist from college, the Ibert Flute Concerto has been one of my favorite pieces. Jacques Ibert was ...

From Hokkaido's pristine powder-snow peaks to the neon-lit drinking warrens of downtown Osaka, inbound tourists are flocking ...

After redeployment from the sports department at the Tokyo headquarters to the Nagano general bureau in 2013, Kondo started on his career path as a specialized mountain writer. He wrote stories ...

Sixty seven runners in colorful dinosaur costumes raced through the snow in Iizuna, Nagano Prefecture, on Feb. 22.