Nine mysterious pillars of light recently appeared in the night sky over the port of Mikuriya, in the city of Daisen, Japan.

As far as we know, they were home to Japan's elite. The Daisen Kofun, for example, the largest of them all, is said to house the remains of Emperor Nintoku, the 16th ruler of Imperial Japan.

SAKAI--Researchers got an almost unheard of chance March 7 to step foot atop an imposing keyhole-shaped imperial burial mound ...

“T-Rex races,” believed to have originated in the United States, are becoming fixtures in Japan since the inaugural Tyrannosaurus Race Daisen was held here in April 2022. The event grabbed ...

"Not my three young-adult kids, all living on their own in Japan, one a new father. There's the cost of getting married, raising kids, general insecurity to be considered. Ponder that before ...

The town of Daisen in Tottori Prefecture sits between the Sea of Japan at its north and Mount Daisen at its south. "So the Japanese giant salamander is a twenty-three-million-year-old creature." ...

Night - Scattered showers with a 74% chance of precipitation. Winds NE. The overnight low will be 53 °F (11.7 °C). Cloudy with a high of 58 °F (14.4 °C) and a 65% chance of precipitation ...