A National Day event to introduce South Korean culture was held at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kanai on May 13, one month after its ...

In Japan, rice prices became lower for the first time in 18 weeks. This happened because the government started selling rice ...

About 80% of respondents to a survey of Mount Fuji climbers approved of entry restrictions on the Yoshida Trail implemented ...

Visitors to Japan have cited the lack of trash bins in public areas, including at train stations, as the biggest ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he will be waiting for his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in ...

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Former Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, pla ...

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands will visit Japan next week to attend the World Exposition being held in the western ...

The Japanese government said Tuesday it has confirmed that China is moving toward constructing a new structure in a contested ...

A former kindergarten employee has been arrested for allegedly secretly taking nude videos of boys in the changeroom of a ...

The workload at the House of Representatives' Legislative Bureau, which supports lawmakers in drafting and managing bills, ...

TOKYO -- A signature piece by famous Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro titled "Young Woman Blowing a Glass Pipe (poppin)" was ...