Moominvalley Park, the first Moomin amusement park outside of Finland, is welcoming visitors with a rainy season display featuring 1,000 umbrellas until July 7.
Saitama Prefecture has registered Japan's first standardized fertilizer from sewage sludge ash, potentially reducing reliance on imports of agricultural inputs.
The influx of immigrants to Kawaguchi highlights residents' worries about maintaining law and order as the population diversifies. Readers share their views.
The people of Chichibu celebrated the arrival of spring with a lively parade of floats and spirited calls of "Horyai!" (treasure is coming).
Towering icefalls, glistening sculptures, and dazzling illuminations transform Ashigakubo valley in Chichibu, Saitama into a magical realm.
A symposium on Tokorozawa and Iruma's rich weaving history was held in a former factory, honored in 1925 for its contribution to Japan's textile industry.
Students needing remedial Japanese language support are over six times more likely to drop out of high school, with only 53.8% advancing to higher education.
Automated rice planting by AI-based robots in Saitama Prefecture is being tested as an effective measure for reducing labor in the aging farming population.
The lion, with its piercing eyes and gaping mouth, is from a traditional lion dance celebrated in Chichibu for more than 400 years.
Castles and shrines, sakura blossoms along riverbanks, festival traditions and creative cuisine are all found in the Edo era town of Kawagoe.
Families display hina dolls to bless their daughters on hinamatsuri. But Saitama could be blessing the entire prefecture with a huge 30-foot tower of dolls.
One Saitama city is putting Japan’s past experience to work by dispatching officials and tackling the challenges in a clean water project in Laos.
