AWAJI, Hyogo Prefecture--A major redevelopment is ... Sure, there are pancake joints all over Japan, but all-day brunch by the sea is prime vacation material. Ever since A Happy Pancake opened ...

Enjoy a two-day road trip through the colorful autumn scenery of Hyogo Prefecture, exploring its tourist attractions to the ...

Awaji Island, once a quiet and largely overlooked area of Japan, has undergone a remarkable ... with many opting to return to nearby Osaka or Hyogo by the end of the day. In response, both Pasona ...

Police in Japan have arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicion of stabbing an elementary school girl in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, 18 years ago. Katsuta Kunihiko is already serving a life ...

TOKYO – Japan’s sake breweries are staring down the threat of declining demand at home ... Takumi Sosei runs a flagship koshu ...

Hyogo police have revealed that a 45-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in a 2006 stabbing incident that left a 9-year-old-girl seriously injured had no prior ...

TAKARAZUKA, (Japan): A giant white whale is swimming leisurely, its tail raised high, through a residential area in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, with the blue sky as the ocean and flowing clouds ...

A weekly ranking of the most popular songs in Japan combining physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, YouTube and GYAO! video views and karaoke data, compiled by Billboard Japan.

So goes an anecdote making the rounds in Japanese tech circles. It suggests that Japan is a land of opportunity when it comes to AI. The tale is instructive. Japanese do feel relatively little ...

No injuries were reported, and Mr. Ishiba was away from Tokyo in southern Japan on Saturday. The episode is the latest in a series of violent acts targeting officials in Japan, a country known as ...

By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo Japan’s governing party lost its majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday, as voters delivered an emphatic rejection of the ...