For Japan, this trend is something of a mixed blessing. Many players overseas who have become fans of anime-style games from ...
Even though Japan's greenhouse gas emissions have decreased throughout the past decade, air pollution causes over 44 thousand deaths annually. Rapid industrial development, economic growth ...
His workplace is a yatai, a tiny food stall on wheels. A dying breed elsewhere in Japan, in Fukuoka, they’re thriving. Like many Japanese cities, Fukuoka was pummelled by American bombs during ...
Planning to visit Japan this autumn for captivating fall foliage? Get ready for a visual feast! As famous as cherry blossoms, Japan's autumn season paints landscapes with breathtaking hues. From ...
By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo Japan’s governing party lost its majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday, as voters delivered an emphatic rejection of the ...
It is believed that the history of the ama on the Sea of Japan side of the Japanese archipelago began in the Kanezaki district of what is now in the city of Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture ... the mayor ...
So goes an anecdote making the rounds in Japanese tech circles. It suggests that Japan is a land of opportunity when it comes to AI. The tale is instructive. Japanese do feel relatively little ...
Some 140 years ago, laborers on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands ... Here are four destinations to consider beyond Fukuoka, Kyushu’s largest and best-known city.
Japan joined the World Bank in August 1952, the year after the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty. Starting in 1953, a number of projects were implemented in Japan with World Bank loans for the ...
This includes four in Niigata Prefecture and one each in Fukuoka and Hiroshima Prefectures. About a dozen locations had previously been listed, but none had their approval renewed by the end of ...
The Baystars will face off against the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks in the Japan Series, which starts on Saturday at Yokohama Stadium. The Yomiuri Shimbun The Yokohama DeNA Baystars celebrate after beating ...
The temple’s rock garden, representing the waves of the Genkai Sea, is particularly beautiful ... Tochoji Temple is home to the largest wooden seated Buddha statue in Japan, the Fukuoka Daibutsu, ...