Local governments are taking advantage of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo’s popularity by proactively promoting attractions and specialties in their localities to boost tourism to regional areas.

Temperatures above 30 deg C were also observed in other parts of the country. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

People across much of Japan sweated through a second day of unseasonably hot weather on Wednesday.

Many local governments in Japan are abandoning matchmaking events intended to combat declining birth rates and revitalize ...

Visiting ruins from the prehistoric Yayoi period and collecting goshuin stamps there has recently been seeing a quiet rise in ...

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The newly opened 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, western Japan, showcases not only cutting-edge technologies from around the ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds from S to SSE at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 48 °F (8.9 °C). Cloudy with a high of 73 °F (22.8 °C). Winds variable at 4 to 10 mph (6.4 to 16.1 kph ...

Itozakura from Shimane prefecture, and Kedaka from Tottori prefecture. “Over 90 per cent of what’s called wagyu in Australia is crossbreed wagyu. We do what they call full-blood wagyu ...

Police in Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture, have arrested a 67-year-old man on suspicion of assault after he punched a man in his 20s on a street in the city center. According to police, the incident ...

Nearly 40 per cent of Japanese prefectural governments are offering or have decided to offer financial assistance to businesses as the economy feels the impact of tariffs imposed by the United States ...

The resulting list of over 100 places — arranged below by island and, within that, by prefecture, in alphabetical order — isn’t a typical or comprehensive guide. But it is, hopefully ...