These videos from Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, show the scenes as the city was shaken. Watch: How earthquake shook Japan on New Year's Day. Video, 00:00:52Watch: How earthquake shook Japan on ...

One hundred and seventy-eight men with the same full name pronounced Hirokazu Tanaka assembled in Tokyo on Oct. 29 to set a new entry in Guinness World Records, handily besting the previous ...

Morita Hirokazu heads an NPO which collects used children's wheelchairs and sends them to physically disabled children overseas. He explains the system and its 20-year history, and what drives him.

These videos from Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, show the scenes as the city was shaken. The BBC hears from women who have seen their rights crushed since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan.

Etsuko Aoki began a small cooking class in Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1957 when she was 24. Knowing she had studied at a culinary school in Tokyo before getting married, her husband’s ...

all while set against a closing focus on memory that invites comparisons to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “After Life.” If not quite working on the same level as Kore-eda’s 1998 masterpiece ...

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Observed at 08:00, Tuesday 17 September BBC Weather in association with MeteoGroup, external All times are Japan Standard Time (Asia/Tokyo, GMT+9) unless otherwise stated.