At the back of the shrine’s sacred grounds is the grave of Itagaki Taisuke (1837–1919), a patriot from the Tosa clan in what is now Kōchi Prefecture who led the Freedom and People’s Rights ...

Nobuo Uematsu is a prolific Japanese composer ... Not bad for a self-taught musician. Born in 1959 in Kōchi Prefecture, Uematsu first taught himself to play his sister's piano when he was ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...

Escape the crowds and visit 3 of Japan’s lesser-known treasures: Taketomi Island’s beaches, Yamaguchi’s history and Nasu’s ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which we are living. These ...

Kuwana City, Mie Prefecture released two English subtitled PR videos, including “Rokkaen,” one of the leading tourist spots ...

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake occurred in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, at 2:49 a.m. on Thursday. Officials say there is no threat of tsunami. An intensity of lower 5 on Japan's seismic ...

At Koga Falls in the city of Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, the water flowing down ... which look as if time has stopped. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei ...

Ibaraki Prefecture relinquished its “least attractive” title among Japan’s 47 prefectures following a local promotional effort that was tongue in cheek at times. The prefecture northeast of ...

Tim Anderson’s new book, Hokkaido, is inspired by Japan’s northernmost prefecture, where Western influences and Indigenous ...