Japanese writer Asako Yuzuki did not expect her novel "Butter" to capture a cult following abroad, hailed as a biting ...

XS, Japan's experimental flying boat that pioneered postwar flying boat technology. Now preserved at the Gifu-Kakamigahara ...

An independent investigative panel’s report about rampant sexual harassment and abuse at a TV broadcaster was described by ...

The critically-acclaimed Japanese action-comedy Baby Assassins 3 (also known as Nice Days) arrives on Digital and Blu-ray in the U.S. on August 26, 2025.

One is known as “The Monster,” the other “Big Bang.” The bout between champion boxers Naoya Inoue and Junto Nakatani is ...

In Japan, swarms of earthquakes are fueling a dip in tourism and a viral panic over predictions of the next 'big one' ...

Japan has warned of a 70–80% chance of a magnitude 8–9 earthquake along the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years, which ...

What began as a fringe movement is now gaining traction, driven by voter dissatisfaction with mainstream political parties ...

The probability of a magnitude-8 or -9 megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years has risen to “around 80 percent,” according to the government’s Earthquake Research ...

In a groundbreaking study, a research team led by Associate Professor Masahiro Nakajima from the Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology at the Tokyo University of ...

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