Bureaucracy, aversion to risk, high taxes are blamed for why Japan lags behind in the start-up scene. Read more at ...

Japan’s oldest lion, Oto, died on Monday at the age of 25, which is equivalent to a century in human years. Born in 1999 in ...

MATSUMOTO, Japan >> As the number of domestic skiers and snowboarders declines significantly, many ski resorts in Japan are ...

Japan on Tuesday marked 14 years since a devastating earthquake and tsunami rocked the country's northeast and triggered a ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--The aging Nisshin Maru, a relic of Japan’s whaling tradition, has finally retired after playing a central role in research and commercial operations for more ...

KAMINOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture—Neighboring municipalities ... The facility would be the second of its kind in Japan located outside the grounds of a nuclear power plant. The first one is ...

Ski resorts are one after another being forced to shut down due to financial difficulties caused by declining visitor numbers ...

Municipal governments in Shimane and Hiroshima prefectures are teaming up to ask the national government for solutions after ...

They may have all but disappeared from newly built homes, but traditional Japanese squat toilets are still found in places ...

A police academy in Japan is teaching its male officers the ... Fukushimaken Keisatsugakko, a police academy located in Fukushima prefecture, started the make-up course in January this year ...

This is the first installment of a series that follows the waves of change taking place in Kyushu and nearby Yamaguchi and ...

This is the fifth installment of a series that follows the waves of change taking place in Kyushu and nearby Yamaguchi and ...