Japan just went through a big scare. More than a dozen strong quakes had been detected in the northern part of Honshu, its main island. The largest had a magnitude of 7.6. This created a risk of ...

The Smithsonian Pocket Guide (PDF) is a map-sized visitor guide that folds down to fit in your pocket. It is available at Washington, D.C., area information/welcome desks in English and Spanish. It is ...

Japan's wholesale inflation accelerated in October as renewed yen falls pushed up import costs for some goods, data showed on ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese lawmakers decide on Monday whether Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba remains the country's leader after his scandal-tarnished coalition lost its parliamentary majority in a ...

This large intersection, which has five crossing ... To clear things up, Harajuku is a neighborhood in Japan (part of the greater Shibuya District) and it is considered a hub of alternative ...

Japan PM Ishiba Survives Parliament Vote as Trump Looms Large By John Geddie and Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese lawmakers voted for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to stay on as leader on ...

A large metal sphere that washed up on a shore in Japan has perplexed locals and set off a flurry of speculation. Authorities can't say what it is yet - not even the police or bomb squad sent to ...

While additional spending packages have largely become an annual occurrence in Japan, the ability of Ishiba’s weakened ...

Japan braces for pressure on trade, security from Trump 2.0 Mt. Fuji finally has its iconic snowcap, latest ever in 130 years Survivor of mass suicide in Okinawa during WWII dies at 93 ...

This paper examines the impact of news shocks of the openings/expansions of large-scale semiconductor plants in Japan on the local labor market, especially on the jobs-to-applicants ratio, using ...

"From the outset, Japan’s Self-Defense Forces were not established for conducting an independent war with a large power, originally with the USSR," Yu Koizumi, a senior fellow of the Research ...

TOKYO: Japanese lawmakers voted on Monday (Nov 11) for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to stay on as leader, after his scandal-tarnished coalition lost its parliamentary majority in a lower house ...