This year's cherry blossom forecast calls for an earlier bloom in the North due to above-average temperatures in the spring.

The upcoming Chuo Shinkansen is expected to reduce travel time between Tokyo and Nagoya from 1.5 hours to only 40 minutes.

The expressway is four lanes for almost its entire length and rises to an altitude of 1,015 metres above sea level.

From yearly festivals to sprawling nature landscapes, these flowers in Japan prove that there’s more than just cherry ...

Japan has always been a hot spot, come winter, spring or summer. Tours to the country, though aplenty, mostly cover the ...

Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. They called him “Show-Killer Kume.” When ...

Yuya Morishita is a high school student from Hiroshima Prefecture with a strong interest in peace education and international ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 was recorded in southwestern Japan, there is no threat of a tsunami. This was announced on ...

Isao Yamazaki is still searching for the remains of his father and his father’s comrades, who died in battle during World War II on Tinian, a small island in the Northern Marianas.

Central Japan's Yamanashi prefecture has ordered the evacuation of nearly 150 residents following the outbreak of a forest ...

Using data from the Japan Meteorological Agency, The Yomiuri Shimbun analysed the daily lowest temperatures between January 1 ...

With Japan preparing to restart a nuclear reactor, the world's largest, in the coastal prefecture of Niigata, a Newsweek map ...