The 70km Shimanami Kaido, webbed with fishing harbours, hillside citrus orchards and historic shrines, is often regarded as ...

Japan’s Ministry of Defense plans to expand a two-year-old army base on Ishigaki Island, near Taiwan, as part of efforts to ...

Niseko is riding a wave of increased global popularity, supported by the opening of new fancy resorts and eateries over the ...

SENDAI (Kyodo) -- Japan has more than 400 small, inhabited islands that are uniquely exposed to the risks of natural ...

Takeshi Kimura, a Nissan engineer overseeing the Japanese automaker’s self-driving technology, shows the car packed with the ...

YONAGUNI, a tiny island on Japan’s western frontier, has no chain convenience stores. Nature lovers can dive with hammerhead ...

Islanders also operated heavy machinery to remove debris from roads and arranged the shipment of medicines from Japan's main island of Honshu by asking residents what was needed. Efforts to sustain ...

Rear Adm. Takuhiro Hiragi, commander of Fleet Air Wing 5 of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, says his group’s mission ...

While praising “a positive trend of improvement and development” in relations with Tokyo, Wang said there were still people ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung unveiled plans to create a cat island in Jakarta, specifically on one of ...

Japan has deployed more than 2,000 firefighters to battle the country’s biggest forest fire in three decades. At least one ...