AOMORI—Heavy snow has blanketed the northernmost prefecture on the main island of Honshu, disrupting public transportation ...

A massive bluefin tuna sold for some $1.3 million on Sunday at the first auction of the season at Tokyo's popular fish market, the ...

Rebuilt in China, the Yabusa is expected to operate between Piraeus and Aegina after final outfitting in Greece ...

At the end of February our now famous Japanese macaque, Honshu, captured the attention of people around the world when he ...

Population density is the number of people per unit of area. According to Our World in Data, the global average is 62 people ...

A world heritage listing - alongside new sparkling and fruity 'cocktail' types of sake - will be the beginning of a ...

Japan boasts the world's longest underwater tunnel, which stretches for more than miles under the seabed of the Tsugaru Strait, but it's now barely being used. Work on the Seikan Tunnel was completed ...

Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Tomiko Itooka, the woman recognized as the world's oldest living person, has died in Japan at the age of 116. Itooka's death in late December was confirmed by Britain's Guinness World ...

This is Tokyo’s famous Shibuya Crossing, which is one of the busiest pedestrian crossings in the world. It feels like the ...

The Financial Times has reported that the Russian military has developed lists of targets containing 160 sites in Japan and ...

A 7.0 earthquake off the coast of Northern California in early December triggered a tsunami warning for parts of the ...