More than 30 Japanese men clad in loincloths braved cold and heavy rain in a harvest festival more than two centuries old, ...

The hotel known for 'The White Lotus' Season 1 has a new sushi restaurant, where Tokyo-born chef Kiyokuni “Kiyo” Ikeda ...

Amid tariffs and geopolitical headwinds, Japan’s trade data shows new patterns emerging – led by food products, tourism-linked consumption, and advanced manufacturing.

The viral museum will be displaying two new exhibits, timed to the upcoming cherry blossom season, transforming the spaces ...

The Tulip Immersion Garden, where 50,000 tulips bloom in beauty every spring, tells the glory of the tulip from its Turkish origins to the Tulip Fever in the Netherlands to the present day. The ...

Here’s how one young man’s obsession with ponds has turned into a nine-store business servicing the likes of Jake Paul and Shaquille O’Neal.

Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.5, an open-weight, 397-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that only wakes up 17 billion neurons per prompt. The payoff? You get 60% lower inference ...

US President Donald Trump said Friday a second aircraft carrier group would be heading to the Middle East soon, upping the military threat against Iran amid negotiations over its nuclear program.

Kindai University said Thursday that it has achieved the world's first complete aquaculture of blackthroat seaperch, a popular and expensive fish in Japan. The university plans to serve farmed ...

Japan’s first commercial offshore wind farm, Goto, has commenced operations. The Goto Floating Wind Farm consortium (SPC) said the wind farm, which started up on Monday, employs the world's first use ...

Japanese officials announced the start of commercial operation of a 16.8-MW floating offshore wind farm, a first for that country. The project partners, a consortium that includes some of the biggest ...

Japan has officially entered the era of commercial floating offshore wind power, with the Goto Offshore Wind Farm commencing operations on January 5, 2026, according to a statement from project ...