Located in Kansai, Nara is considered to be the oldest city in Japan. It was the country's first permanent capital and played ...

Teachers at a school in southern Japan are being mocked and condemned after a 14-year-old girl was punished ... a junior high school in the town of Kurume, in Fukuoka Prefecture, was snared ...

Police in Chikuzen, Fukuoka Prefecture, have arrested a 27-year-old unemployed woman on suspicion of killing her mother at their home early Tuesday. According to police, a man called 110 at around 2 a ...

Fukuoka is an old city with a young outlook ... using traditional Hakozaki Shima fabrics. Temple town:The green, tranquil Gokusho-machi neighbourhood is home to historic temples including Shofukuji, ...

FUKUCHI, Fukuoka Prefecture—On a morning when the ... even the sound of a foot breaking a tree branch,” the 77-year-old hunter said of the wild swine. Suddenly, the barking of fierce dogs ...

Three more deaths have since been reported: An 80-year-old man in Fukuoka who fell into a river ... according to footage aired by NHK. In the town of Hiratsuka, cars were partially submerged ...

Anti-tourist protests led by locals peaked in Europe this summer, and several governments are now slapping tourist taxes in ...

A 68-year-old man who has ... to injuries, than Fukuoka. A Kita-Kyushu government official vowed to accelerate anti-crime measures to convert the municipality into a “town boasting top-class ...

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Yu Fukuda, 67, who runs a fish farm and adjoining restaurant in the resort town of Yufu in ... Lin Yue-Hua, a 60-year-old tourist from Taiwan, had her flight from Fukuoka back home cancelled ...

Emblazoned on the back of the hand-stitched shirt she and six friends sported last Wednesday: Ohtani 17. The women drove 5 ...