This multimodal route through the country’s Northern Alps is a great alternative to the similar journey around Mount Fuji — ...

Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao ...

In May 2025, a rumor began to spread online that Japan had ended all vaccinations for children under 24 months, leading infant mortality to drop by 96%. Meanwhile, the infant mortality rate ...

Two top Japanese Communists, Kyuichi Tokuda and Yoshio Shiga, occupied adjoining prison cells for 17 years, used to tap messages to each other through the wall. Since they were freed at war’s ...

A guesthouse in Japan says it is under pressure from local authorities to change a policy asking guests to declare that they have never committed war crimes, following complaints by Israel’s ...

Eventually, it was time to lay down the tracks for "Under The Bridge." According to the 2004 book Fornication: The Red Hot Chili Peppers Story, Rubin felt the song needed a natural progression ...

Aaron Judge has long been a villain to Boston Red Sox fans, and that trend won't change in 2025. Judge and the Red Sox have had their fair share of wins and losses against each other through the ...

Japanese police have found a surprising new way to curb the country’s rampant prostitution – by painting a street yellow. The unusual tactic in Osaka has led to a dramatic 90 per cent decrease ...

A hawkish member of Japan's ruling party on Wednesday came under fire for his statement that descriptions at a war memorial rewrote the history of the Himeyuri student corps, many of whom lost their ...

Japan stopped vaccinating children under two years old in 1994 and saw its infant mortality drop by 96% since. Rating: False (About this rating?) In May 2025, a rumor began to spread online that ...

FILE PHOTO: Stacked containers are seen at an industrial port in Tokyo, Japan February 15, 2024. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo 14 May 2025 08:06AM (Updated: 14 May 2025 09:30AM) ...