Hokkaido, already known as the “kingdom of dairy farming,” has earned a new accolade for its beef. According to the central ...

A music label in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, has sparked controversy by announcing that it will release a CD featuring the ...

Powerful Typhoon No. 10 made landfall near Satsuma-Sendai in Kagoshima Prefecture around 8 a.m. on Aug. 29, prompting widespread evacuation orders and disaster-related warnings. Strong gusts of ...

Regarding the size of a possible budget, Moriyama said, 'We would like (to compile it) without issuing deficit-covering bonds ...

Farmers have begun harvesting the first green tea leaves of the year in the central Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka.

SC Capital Partners Group, a real estate investment manager focused on Asia-Pacific, has acquired a 165-room hotel in Kagoshima, Japan, via its Japan Hospitality Fund I.

Flight Petty Officer 2nd Class Setsuo Ishino, age 19, took off from Kanoya Air Base in Japan’s Kago­shima prefecture. He was ...

An explosive eruption rocked Sakurajima Volcano in Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture on March 25. The eruption sent a massive ash plume 8,200 feet above the crater. This was the volcano's 44th explosive ...

China’s UAV activity is increasing rapidly in the airspace around the Nansei Islands in Japan’s southwest, part of the First ...

Japan has taken a major step toward revising the country's retrial system, which has been criticized as making the process of overturning a wrongful conviction excessively lengthy.

A team of Japanese researchers has found that a rabbit species native to remote islands in southwestern Japan grow at a ...