Four newly translated Japanese texts describe how ritual samurai beheadings were supposed to take place during the Edo period ...

A crane game called "grape catcher" is gaining attention at a tourist farm in the city of Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture. The ...

Twice MotoGP champion Francesco Bagnaia won the Japanese Grand Prix in Motegi on Sunday to complete a weekend double and cut ...

Capcom built the fictitious Monster Hunter language in a very specific method, and one English teacher spent the last 2,000 hours or more figuring it out ...

Italian energy company Eni is in talks with Japan on supplying the country with liquefied natural gas (LNG), Cristian ...

Years-old footage of a mudslide that crashed through a popular resort town in Japan has resurfaced in social media posts ...

The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries company launched the H2A rocket Number 49 from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima ...

Shohei Ohtani, 30, of Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers hit three consecutive home runs and stole two bases in a game against the Miami Marl･･･ ...

An image of former Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi bowing his head at the Yasukuni shrine to Japan's war dead has ...

Ohtani-mania was on full display hours before a recent game at the scenic ballpark in Los Angeles, with fans freshly off ...

Charli XCX announced that Ariana Grande, Tinashe, the 1975, Bon Iver, and the Japanese House will also be featured on 'Brat' remix album.

The International Olympic Committee’s three major Japanese sponsors — Toyota, Panasonic and Bridgestone — are terminating their contracts. TThis leaves the IOC without a Japanese sponsor with the ...