"A Pale View of Hills," the debut novel of Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, is being adapted as a feature film. The picture is now in production and being directed by Japan's Ishikawa Kei.

A tsunami warning has been issued for a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Hyuga-Nada Sea off the coast of Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

A record number of visitors came to Japan in 2024, thanks to surging post-pandemic global tourism and a decline in the yen that’s making the island nation an attractive and affordable destination.

Most surprisingly, the number of users identified by police increased about threefold compared with in 2023. Gambling is illegal in Japan, but there are many online casinos that offer services in ...

Japanese trading house Itochu posted on Thursday an increase of 11% in nine-month net profit to December of 676.5 billion yen ($4.44 billion) from the corresponding period a year earlier.

The number of stateless children in Japan under 5 years old has jumped approximately 3.5-fold in the three years until the end of 2019. A total of 213 children under 5 without any form of ...

There have been no reports of damage linked to the tremor that happened on Monday, Jan. 13 A 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocked the southwestern part of Japan on Monday, Jan. 13, prompting a tsunami ...

Japan saw a record number of suicides among school pupils in 2024, health ministry data showed Wednesday. The latest data among those in elementary through high school edged up to 527 from 513 ...

unveiled its strategic investment in Japanese webcomic and manga studio No. 9. The deal marks Webtoon Entertainment’s first investment in a Japanese studio. Webtoon said in a statement that this ...

Births continue declining in Japan with the number falling in the first quarter of 2024 to 170,804, including babies born to non-Japanese parents, a decrease of 11,673 from a year ago ...

That’s a 16.9 percent increase from 2023 ... there’s no doubt Japan has been the number one destination for the bulk of us Singaporeans. Other contributing factors also include JNTO’s ...