Japan’s air force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 military training aircraft after one of the ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan – For the Zen monks, days in the calendar that contain the digits four and nine are regarded as special. On those six days each month – except February in a leap year – the ...

May 12 (Jiji Press)--A Buddha statue stolen in 2012 and taken to South Korea was returned to a temple on Tsushima, an island in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki, on Monday.

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More than 20 percent of the population will be aged 75 or older in 46 of the nation’s 47 prefectures in 2050 ... disaster following the Great East Japan Earthquake. The ratio of people aged ...

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I recently visited Akita Prefecture and toured several sites where bears had been spotted. To my surprise, many areas were far more urban than I’d imagined—it’s no longer the case that bears ...

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His Highness was introduced to the Japanese delegation’s initiatives in Aichi Prefecture, including its various cultural events, most notably the upcoming sixth edition of the Aichi Triennale, set to ...