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

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

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 ...

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 ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 57 jolted southeast of Honshu Japan at 210225 GMT on Thursday the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences sa ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 53 jolted Near East Coast of Honshu Japan at 191006 GMT on Friday the GFZ German Research Centre for Geoscience ...

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 ...