Gathering 25 oil paintings, this exhibit traces how the Oguiss and Utrillo spent their careers capturing the unvarnished beauty and character of streets across Europe — the windswept lanes of ...

Netflix’s emotional, high-octane Badly in Love Season 2 gave us the exact drama and excitement that we expected in episode 10’s graduation ceremony. After two intense weeks in Okinawa, the housemates ...

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 ...

Tokyo’s culinary scene is buzzing this season with highly anticipated openings, ranging from refined sushi counters to international imports. Here are seven standout new restaurants to add to your ...

Naomi Osaka is known for her bold on-court fashion, and when she walked onto Court 3 for her Wimbledon opener in a custom white kimono-style look by Tokyo-based designer Hana Yagi, she once again made ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his first ever official letter addressed to Catholic bishops, Pope Leo XIV compared irresponsible use of AI to the Tower of Babel, and urged everyone to instead “build the city in which God 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.