AFP Each spring, thousands of visitors flock to Ashikaga Flower Park, located north of Tokyo, to witness the breathtaking beauty of over 350 blooming wisteria trees. Some of these trees are over ...

A Taiwanese tourist faced intense online backlash after vigorously shaking cherry blossom trees in Japan to create a romantic “cherry blossom rain” for photos. The unidentified woman was ...

Somei Yoshino cherry trees bloomed on April 20 at Matsumae Park in the town of Matsumae, located in the southernmost part of Hokkaido ... and Friday at 4 p.m., Japan time. Click/tap here for ...

Japan's Environment Ministry says seal carcasses in the country's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido have tested positive for a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu. The ministry says this is the ...

One of two U.S. Marines who went missing Friday during a mountain hike in northern Japan has died. The pair went missing on Mount Furano in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island ...

Both men — automotive maintenance technicians with the 9th Engineer Support Battalion on Okinawa — were on an off-duty hike of Mount Furano on Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s four main ...

They are offering visitors the chance to hold a range of birds including a Ural owl, a Bengal/Indian Eagle Owl, a Northern white-faced owl, an Indian Scops owl, and a dark breasted barn owl.

OSAKA--The grounds of the Japan Mint in Osaka’s Kita Ward opened to the public on April 5 in an annual event to show off the hundreds of flowering cherry blossom trees. But a lucky 1,900 or so ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba gave a ritual masakaki tree offering to Yasukuni Shrine ... Neighboring countries regard the shrine as a symbol of Japan's past militarism as it honors Class-A ...

A tree-planting ceremony was held on Monday and was attended by the President of the UN General Assembly, Japan's UN Ambassador Yamazaki Kazuyuki and the chair of the preparatory committee for ...