A Japanese preschool exchange programme is attracting Hong Kong families who hope to expose their children to new cultural ...

The Yamato Museum in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, has been closed and will undergo extensive renovation work until the end of ...

Ceremonies at JR Hakata and Hiroshima stations were among the many held in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Sanyo ...

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) has officially commissioned its fourth Taigei-class diesel-electric attack ...

A Japanese court rejects a request to halt the operation of a nuclear reactor run by Shikoku Electric Power Co. in western ...

Presiding judge Kazumi Ohama said 'It cannot be said that there is a specific danger that violates the lives of the ...

A Japanese court on Wednesday rejected a request to halt the operation of a nuclear reactor run by Shikoku Electric Power Co.

Eighty years later, Norio Uyematsu returned to the land of his youth here to thank a local farm owner who gave his family a ...

A single-car KiHa 120 series diesel train traveling on the JR Fukuen Line whistled through the Chugoku Mountains as it ...

Cherry blossoms are forecast to bloom earlier than usual in Japan this year, mainly in the northern part of the country.

Krzysztof Wodiczko discusses his 1999 project, Hiroshima Projection, which involved projecting the hands of atomic bomb survivors onto the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, one of the few structures still ...

If the asteroid hit our planet, Tyson predicted the blast would be equivalent to 8-10 megatons or around 600 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War Two. LATEST ...