Kurobe canyon route tours trade comfort for rare look at underground works
KUROBE, Japan (Kyodo) -- The long-awaited opening of the Kurobe-Unazuki Canyon Route aims to draw visitors with an appetite for something out of the o
KUROBE, Japan (Kyodo) -- The long-awaited opening of the Kurobe-Unazuki Canyon Route aims to draw visitors with an appetite for something out of the o
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Sunday that Japan denounces attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels on Saudi Arabia, urging them to
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TOKYO/SEOUL (Kyodo) -- North Korea fired two suspected ballistic missiles Monday, Japan's Defense Ministry said, adding they had already fallen.The fi
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OSAKA -- People who live in streetscapes with a visual "sense of enclosure" created by buildings and trees get higher-quality sleep, according to find
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Revised data released by the Cabinet Office showed Japan's real gross domestic product expanded at an annualized 1.4 percent from the
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The denuclearization of North Korea has become an "increasingly improbable" goal, and the United States and its allies should move be
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. plans to boost its defense sales to 1 trillion yen ($6.3 billion) or more in the mid-2030s, as Japan r
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- East Japan Railway Co. will launch a new digital payment service called "teppay" on Oct. 20, as the train operator aims to compete wi
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is calling for the deletion of World War II "enemy state" clauses from the U.N. Charter, spotl
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"It was more than 100 years after the arrival of the Dutch that the study of horizontal letters began." What Japanese scholar Sugita Genpaku (1733-18
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SAPPORO -- Research has found at least 39 "industrial comfort stations" existed across Japan for male Korean laborers mobilized into wartime industrie
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There are many ways to look at a dragon. In The Japanese Tattoo, a new photobook by writer and photographer Manami Okazaki, one can begin with the obvious pleasures: the curve of its body across a man’s back, the dense black of sumi ink sunk deep into skin, the waves and clouds t...
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Major Japanese shipping and entertainment companies are launching new cruise ships with shorter, lower-cost itineraries, aiming to at
