Draft horses showcased their strength and speed in a race held in Wakuya Town, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan.

Cherry blossoms of the Somei-Yoshino variety have started blooming in a town on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido.

Otaru, Japan, is using "ninjas" to remind tourists of local etiquette and address issues caused by overtourism, like blocking ...

The crew of the ship, which left Shimonoseki port, plans to start hunting fin whales in the exclusive economic zone, north of ...

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A norovirus outbreak has sickened 140 people at Hotel Daiheigen, a hot spring resort in Japan's Hokkaido, local media ...

In Japan, some tour buses have been repurposed as hearses, providing “compassionate” funeral services that enable families to ...

A fossilized tooth of a cartilaginous fish found in Japan's northernmost prefecture Hokkaido in 2013 is of a newly discovered ...

Originally founded in 1986 and acquired by SoftBank in 2005, IDC Frontier operates data centers across the Tokyo metropolitan ...

The Japanese government estimates that there is a 70-80 percent chance of a megaquake occurring within 30 years.

This article was published in the Autumn 2024 issue of Litterae Populi. The full issue can be found here.Some species of ...