GIFU, Japan -- With 800 years of sword-making tradition, the city of Seki in Japan's Gifu prefecture is tapping its claim to fame to attract more foreign tourists. At the end of January ...

Japanese authorities are investigating a U.S. Navy sailor suspected of injuring an 87-year-old Japanese man crossing a Yokosuka city street last month, according to the city and the Navy.

Officials in the western Japanese city of Okayama have lifted all the evacuation orders that they issued to residents. They say the wildfires have been brought under control. On Friday morning ...

In this unrelated file photo, children learn English from an assistant language teacher at a day care facility in the Saga Prefecture city of Genaki, in western Japan, on Feb. 13, 2015.

Thousands of residents have been evacuated from the northern Japan city of Ofunato due to the country’s largest wildfire in over 30 years. The fire, which started on Wednesday, has burned 1,800 ...

Arrow Video will release Dark City on 23rd June, according to an official press release. This is in addition to the Road House and Swordfish 4K news from earlier today.

Around 2,000 people fled areas around the northern Japan city of Ofunato to stay with friends or relatives, while more than 1,200 were evacuated to shelters, according to officials. "We're still ...

Time Out Market’s aim is always to bring all the very best of a city’s food scene to one sociable, lively space, and the mission in Japan’s second city is no different. Located in the South ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...

Yokohama, Japan — The van makes its way slowly but surely through the city streets, braking gently when a car swerves into its lane. But its steering wheel is turning on its own, and there's no ...

Despite this, one major milestone has been reached — the Future City Pavilion has been completed and unofficially opened with a special media preview earlier this month. Image: Japan Association for ...