A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Japan at around 2:00 a.m. Sunday morning. The quake registered a lower 5 on Japan’s seven-level seismic intensity scale in Ibaraki Prefecture. According to the Japan ...

As Japan’s population shrinks and ages, questions about how the country should respond to its changing workforce are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. While some argue that more foreign ...

On Tuesday, AV actress and former gravure idol Yu Tano posted on X expressing concern for those affected by the recent Kumamoto earthquake. She said she had worked with a friend in Hiroshima to send ...

On this day in 1999, more than 500 passengers and 14 cabin crew boarded ANA Flight 61 from Tokyo to New Chitose Airport near Sapporo, unaware of the horror they were about to witness. Not long after ...

Mark your calendars: Badly in Love Season 2 is set to premiere globally on Netflix on Tuesday, August 4, 2026. The 10-episode season will roll out weekly on Tuesdays over the course of three weeks.

Sanrio has just officially named Chokochilla — a strawberry-loving chinchilla with a strawberry-shaped beret and pink ears and tail — as the winner of its 2026 Happilina Friends competition. The ...

Sanrio’s beloved beret-sporting golden retriever Pompompurin has been crowned as the winner of the 2026 Sanrio Character Ranking. Pompompurin took the crown with over 7 million votes, an increase of ...

On Wednesday, Central Japan Railway (JR Central) and West Japan Railway (JR West) announced that Supreme Class premium private compartments on bullet trains will be introduced from October 1. The ...

On Saturday, US President Donald Trump posted a video on Truth Social depicting himself in several avatars, including Naruto Uzumaki, the spiky-haired protagonist of the popular anime and manga ...

Japan is on track for a more active typhoon season in 2026 than it typically sees. Weathernews forecasts about 28 storms will form this year — above the long-term average of 25.1. Of these, roughly 14 ...

Few contemporary artists possess a visual language as instantly recognizable as Yoshitomo Nara’s: wide-eyed, childlike figures with sullen expressions, rendered in clean outlines and muted colors, and ...

Amid a growing number of fires involving historic religious sites across Japan this year, the revered Reikado Hall on Mount Misen on Miyajima Island was destroyed in a blaze on Wednesday morning.