Twelve-year-old Mizugu Okamoto wowed everyone at the 2019 Dew Tour Women’s Park Skateboarding...

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The sound of pheasants chirping and frogs croaking filled the air....
Minori Kawai (left) joins the surfers for a litter picking contest on Tsurigasaki surfing...
Veteran journalist Yoshihisa Komori, The Sankei Shimbun’s associate correspondent in Washington, D.C.,...
Kanako, a maiko from Miyagawacho, Kyoto, does the ceremonial first pitch in Koshien...
On June 1, the organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic...
CAPTION: Kunito Horii is surrounded by karihari (temporary pasting) mounds used to dry Hanging...
Maiko, or apprentice geisha, are one of the main attractions of the...
Family Mart recently opened a next-generation test store, which uses the latest...
JAPAN Forward, the news and opinion website showing “the real Japan” to the...
Imagine around 500 people, all wearing imperial kimonos from the Heian period,...
Japan has been slightly behind its competitors China and South Korea in the...