As Japan’s population shrinks, maintaining rail service in remote small towns is becoming a challenge. Is this the answer?

Time passed at a relaxed pace when this reporter visited an art museum here whose main building features barrel-vaulted ceilings among many ･･･ ...

As natural disasters become increasingly frequent and severe due to global climate change, Japanese defence disaster company SAKIGAKE Japan is emerging as a global leader in disaster risk reduction.

Hana Kusumoto is a reporter/translator who has been covering local authorities in Japan since 2002. She was born in Nagoya, ...

Japan needs to keep opportunities for young people in rural areas to pursue higher education even amid the country's ...

Despite the constraints of Article 9 of its pacifist Constitution, Tokyo has found creative ways to support ASEAN’s defense ...

The Penn Japanese Language Program invited students from Penn, the Community College of Philadelphia, and Lower Merion High School to tour the Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens on Friday.

In 1913, Tohoku became the first university in Japan to admit female students. Tohoku University was also the first in Japan to admit international students. In 2009, Tohoku was one of 13 universities ...

The display of lunar soil samples collected by China's space missions is one of the key highlights of the China Pavilion at ...

Europe's CERN laboratory said on Monday that a detailed analysis revealed no technical obstacles to building the world's biggest particle ... FCC," Catherine Biscarat of the L2IT lab at Toulouse ...

In the long run, Japan and China will remain interdependent and deeply integrated in trade, and the Japanese economy is ...

The Pentagon has begun the first phase of upgrading U.S. Forces Japan to a joint force headquarters, announced Secretary of ...