Typhoon Hagibis (Typhoon #19) roared through Eastern Japan over this past weekend, leaving at least 75 people dead and around 200 known injured. Over 16,000...
How many times has this fire been ablaze? The furnace fills with flames stretching tall. Sand with iron and charcoal is added as fuel....
Surprisingly, only 8% of the electric power lines throughout the 23 wards of the Tokyo Metropolis are installed underground. The recent experience of Tokyo’s close...
The reconstruction of the exterior of Kumamoto Castle’s main keep, which was seriously damaged in the April 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes, has been completed, and...
Wednesday July 24 marked exactly one year until the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In the Summer Games, the second...
The Seaside Liner that figured in an accident by running in the wrong direction on June 1, 2019. Service resumed July 4, using manual, driver-operated...
Just ahead of the one-year mark before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the construction site of the New National Stadium (Shinjuku Ward) was opened...
This year marks the 100th year since Baumkuchen, the German version of a spit cake, was introduced to Japan. Ninoshima, located in the Seto...
The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO on July 6 named as World Heritage sites a collection of 49 tumulus sites in Osaka Prefecture dating back...
Donald Trump met Kim Jong Un at Panmunjom on the military demarcation line in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas on Sunday, June...
Shohei Otani, the designated hitter for the United States Major League team the Los Angeles Angels, hit for the cycle on Thursday, June 13, becoming...
A United Nations human rights representative is questioning freedom of the press in Japan, even while the world body maintains a deafening silence on the...
