Alimentation Couche-Tard reportedly offered to pay over $47bn for the Japanese-owned retail giant. A government spokesperson admitted "minor editing" had been made to the image after online ...

The Washington Monument is framed in the cherry blossoms along the Tidal Basin at daybreak on March 22, 2024. Photo: J. David Ake/Getty Images ...

Petroglyphs in Fugoppe Cave. Credit: Board of Education of Yoichi Town Located in the small fishing town of Yoichi, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, is Fugoppe Cave, an archaeological site that ...

Shigeru Ishiba, top, sits ahead of the extraordinary session of parliament’s lower house on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, in Tokyo. TOKYO—Japan’s parliament on Tuesday formally elected Shigeru ...

The team was led by Kensaku Urata, a research fellow of karst landform with Kyushu University, who previously served as president of the Speleological Society of Japan. Urata said the cave ...

Ai Yamaguchi (Japanese, b.1977) is an artist who utilizes a unique combination of delicately drawn lines and celluloid, picture-like expression to vividly portray the lives of young female prostitutes ...

Former defense chief Shigeru Ishiba and economic security minister Sanae Takaichi are set to face off Friday in a runoff vote in Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election after no ...

The Japanese education system has often been criticized for heavily valuing scores and rote memorization. Nonetheless, Japanese students have continuously scored above the worldwide average in the ...

Cats have been an ever-present part of Japanese culture for hundreds of years: sometimes cherished as devoted protectors of Buddhist scriptures, other times feared as devious yokai (supernatural ...

Tripadvisor gives a Travellers’ Choice award to accommodations, attractions and restaurants that consistently earn great reviews from travellers and are ranked within the top 10% of properties on ...

Kyoto, Japan in the spring. Experts say the best time to visit Japan is during the cherry blossom season from late March to mid-May. In Japan, fall foliage stretches late into the year ...

A deadly knife attack on a Japanese schoolboy in China has stoked frictions between the two countries and raised safety concerns at a time when China is trying to attract foreigners for work and ...