Japan is thronged with tourists but not every place feels it is getting its fair share. The “overtourism” that irks residents ...

Digital tools launched in a Japanese smart city that can send disaster alerts to safeguard residents are part of an optional ...

Fremont’s Osaka Marketplace is expanding with two new Bay Area stores in the next 12 months with locations in Foster City and ...

Despite Prime Minister Takaichi’s immigration stance, some doubt she’ll go far enough to satisfy their demands.

A gunshot rang out on a recent morning in a meadow in northern Japan. The brown bear slumped in the cage, watched by a ...

When Japanese soldiers arrived in the northern prefecture of Akita on Thursday, they prepared to face a new kind of threat – one with fuzzy ears and up to 220 pounds of mass.

Japan’s Defense Ministry is sending troops to the northern prefecture of Akita to help contain a surge of bear attacks that ...

Japan has deployed military personnel to the northern prefecture of Akita following a significant increase in bear attacks ...

Production of "karasumi," or dried mullet roe, is in full swing in the central Japanese prefecture of Mie. Karasumi is a ...

A delegation from Fujinomiya, Japan, visited Santa Monica High School last week as part of the decades-long sister city ...