The Tragedies of Mudan and Ryukyu,” a seven-years-in-the-making documentary exploring a pivotal 1870s incident that reshaped East Asian geopolitics, will world premiere as the opening film of Japan’s ...

Sean Hu’s “Ocean Elegy: The Tragedies of Mudan and Ryukyu ... will world premiere as the opening film of Japan‘s Cinema at Sea – Okinawa Pan-Pacific International Film Festival.

Heavy snowfall has battered a wide area of Japan, especially the Hokuriku region along the Sea of Japan coast. This video ...

Nobumasa Kinugasa used to dream about an NHL career, only to have the Pacific Ocean and minimal professional hockey heritage in his homeland get in the way. Still, the native of Kobe, Japan ...

In late December Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi visited China, where he took part in a series of meetings with his counterpart Wang Yi and other Chinese officials. The trip gave the ...

At the boat ramp, Navy divers Petty Officers 1st Class Kyle Gambel and Matthew Harris simulated crash victims who had fallen into the ocean. Japanese coast guard personnel rescued them ...

US authorities say a plane with 10 people on board crashed into the icy ocean in the US state of Alaska. They say officials lost contact on Thursday with the small commuter plane operated by ...

Due to the coldest wave of the season, the Japanese archipelago experienced heavy snow mainly on the Sea of Japan coast Feb.

TOKYO -- Japan welcomed a record 36.87 million tourists in 2024, up 47.1% from the previous year thanks to the weak yen, according to data released Wednesday by the Japan National Tourism ...

A record number of visitors came to Japan in 2024, thanks to surging post-pandemic global tourism and a decline in the yen that’s making the island nation an attractive and affordable destination.