A flash of inspiration struck professor Hiromi Uchimura about eight years ago as he looked at a popular erasable pen.

TOKYO -- Japan's shipbuilding industry has hit a boom period, with dry docks booked for the next three years and prices ...

This beautiful island in Japan is wildly underrated, considering how much it has to offer travelers in terms of food, natural ...

With the number of foreigners working in Japan increasing ... such as Ibaraki Prefecture and Fukui Prefecture. Regarding the merits of such agreements, Ehime Prefecture responded in the survey ...

Japan’s government on Tuesday pledged to ... It is the first time it has been repurposed outside Fukushima prefecture. “It’s important to secure a wider public understanding” of the ...

FILE -A radiation monitor indicates 131.00 mSv per hour near Unit 3 and 4 reactor buildings at Tokyo Electric Power Co.,'s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station in Okuma ...

Tokyo — Japan has a new sumo grand champion — or ... Onosato is from Ishikawa prefecture, which was hit on Jan. 1, 2024, by a devastating earthquake and tsunami that killed about 600 people ...

If you go to Japan, there’s a chance you might meet someone with an unusual name – such as “Nike,” “Pikachu” or “Pudding.” While still a minority, these names have grown in ...

FILE – Black garbage bags filled with radioactivity waste are kept temporally in a field in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan Saturday, March 11, 2017. (Kota Endo/Kyodo News via AP ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds variable at 3 to 6 mph (4.8 to 9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 52 °F (11.1 °C). Cloudy with a high of 76 °F (24.4 °C). Winds variable at 2 to 9 mph (3.2 to 14. ...