a demonstration city being built in central Japan to test advanced mobility technologies. The demonstration city in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, includes roads dedicated to automated mobility on ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...

In April, Japan began issuing 6-month residency visas to traveling remote workers known as digital nomads who can show they earn at least 10 million yen per year. NHK World visited Shimoda City in ...

The fire, in a forested area of the coastal city of Ofunato, killed at least one person and prompted evacuation orders for thousands of residents. By Jin Yu Young and Hisako Ueno Hisako Ueno ...

Among them is the small city of Sabae, in Fukui prefecture, about a 3.5-hour train ride from Tokyo. It’s widely known as ...

A city on the Pacific coast in eastern Japan and other entities hope to save a plan for offshore wind power generation, after one of the main project operators said it will undertake a complete ...

The city is home to Izumo Taisha, thought to be the country's oldest shrine and dedicated to Okuninushi, who is worshipped as the creator of Japan and the god of enmusubi in Japan's indigenous ...

Japan is made up of 6,852 islands and both volcanic and seismic activity is permanent, with a long history of earthquakes and tsunamis. It is estimated that on land and underwater there are about ...

according to Izumo City, including around 350 couples who got married there. Set on an often tempestuous sea and a place of sunsets so stunning that they are certified by Japan Heritage as an ...

The Mongol Empire attempted to invade Japan in 1274 and 1281 ... sea floor to receive such a designation. The city has since sought to study the sunken ship and determine how to utilize it ...