A 6-year-old boy is in critical condition and unconscious after drowning in the Yoshino River in Higashi-Miyoshi, Tokushima ...

How core-mantle differentiation influenced the distribution of volatile elements on Earth. Imagine Earth's history as a ...

Seki mackerel is a branded mackerel caught by single-hook fishing in Saganoseki, Oita Prefecture. Its flesh is firm, richly ...

In this week’s “Shipping Number of the Week” from BIMCO, Chief Shipping Analyst, Niels Rasmussen, looks at the current size of Japan’s fleet. The country’s shipowners and shipyards could stand to ...

“Combined, Japanese shipowners currently own 12% of the global fleet’s deadweight tonnes capacity (DWT). This makes Japan the ...

From Hello Kitty to Pikachu, the country changed what the world considers adorable. But do these characters represent joy — ...

Congo, a vast Central African country, suffers from a lack of practicable roads. As a result, travel is often on body of ...

The Japan Convention Bureau announced the selection of Ehime Prefecture as host destination for the annual VELO-CITY world ...

Background Japan’s ‘Health Japan 21’ initiative targets a reduction in adult smoking prevalence to 12% by 2032. This study ...

MATSUYAMA, Japan >> Sales of Beni Princess, a high-end citrus variety produced in Ehime prefecture, were full swing in March.

With the price of rice skyrocketing, sake breweries are being left high and dry, struggling to procure raw ingredients as ...

Imagine if Earth's history had a mystery novel, and one of its biggest unsolved puzzles was: Where did all the nitrogen go?