Oriental Land’s partnership with Disney dates back to 1979, and Tokyo Disneyland began operations in 1983. In exchange for exclusive operating rights for Tokyo Disney Resort, Oriental Land pays Disney ...

The six Tohoku prefectures, Tohoku Tourism Promotion Organization, and Tohoku Kizuna Festival Executive Committee will hold ...

The stately main building at the former Kyushu Imperial University's Faculty of Engineering here boasts a cutting-edge design ...

Tohoku Wonder Trip Zone “Tohoku Wonder Trip Zone” features a special theater that presents colorful images showing the unique charm of Tohoku through the four seasons. Panels will also provide tourist ...

If travelers to Japan want to know what they're eating, a foodie tour of Tokyo's Tsukiji Outer Market needs to be first on ...

Hundreds of dancers from northeastern Japan will descend on the Osaka Kansai Expo site in mid-June to showcase the flavor of ...

The extreme Sinophobia rampant within online communities and the far-right “Taegeukgi rallies” was being displayed on the streets in broad daylight. Rather than be wary of the ramifications of such ...

Wright’s plan to protect the hotel from tremor damage proved successful when the building was one of the few survivors of the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, which devastated the Japanese ...

The Great Kanto Earthquake that struck Japan in 1923 laid bare the need for a nationwide information system to keep citizens safe. Two years later, stations in three cities—Tokyo, Osaka and ...

The capital of Japan experiences thousands of tremors annually, and its history is marked by devastating quakes, including the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, which claimed over 140,000 lives.

However, the plant was completely destroyed three years into its operation during the Great Kanto Earthquake. It took six years before another facility was completed in a different part of Yokohama.