From classic sights to lesser-known gems and transport tips to seasonal highlights, here’s the lowdown on visiting Japan.

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Newsweek 's weekly update maps aircraft carrier movements in the Indo-Pacific region. As of March 14, the locations of 12 ...

Japan’s Ministry of Defense plans to expand a two-year-old army base on Ishigaki Island, near Taiwan, as part of efforts to ...

These are Niseko problems. The powder capital of Asia, and some say the world. Japan, long revered as a powder Mecca, has ...

Ukraine has also used drones to attack military facilities, munitions factories and energy infrastructure in Russia and is estimated to have sunk one-fifth of Russia’s Black Sea fleet.

There was a sense of achievement when he and crewmate David Tait arrived at the Japanese port ... this time with fellow old sea dog Rod Gunther. Tardrew, 76, formerly of Frankston and now of ...

The mine-sweeping exercise has been held since the 1990s. Japan took part in the drill as an observer in 2021 and officially participated in 2023 and 2024. As the Black Sea faces Russia and Ukraine ...

A Virgin Australia pilot alerted Australian authorities about a live-fire drill by Chinese naval ships last week in the Tasman Sea that forced 49 flights to change their paths, Australia's air ...

Heavy snow is expected to continue across a wide area of Japan, mainly along the Sea of Japan coast. People in the area are being advised to exercise caution when traveling. The Japan ...

ONOMICHI, Japan -- In late October, as the autumn leaves were turning yellow, I sat on the deck of a ferry crossing part of the Seto Inland Sea, a 440-kilometer-long body of water that separates ...

Officials say a powerful cold air mass and winter pressure pattern are bringing snow mainly to the Sea of Japan side of the main island of Honshu. They say the amount of snow that fell in Wajima ...