Nagoya has strong connections to some of Japan’s most influential historical figures, including Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi ...

Specimens collected in Cambodia mark the first record of the moth Eulocastra sasakii outside Japan and reveal the previously ...

Kokuryu is the Fukui brewery that helped bring daiginjo to market in 1975. Learn its history, aging, Kuzuryu, and key bottles ...

I am continuing my journey around Japan.This is the third installment of my irregular progress reports!My current mileage ...

A morphological revision of Japan’s Pterostichus macrogenys beetle group described three species, updated three distribution ...

Conclusion: The materials industry in the Tokai region is a treasure trove of "companies that are strong despite low name recognition"The Tokai region is one of Japan's leading pottery production ...

I am sitting on a bullet train somewhere between Kyoto and Tokyo, watching rice fields, small towns and misty mountains whizz past the window. My Shinkansen (Japan’s high-speed ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Among the world’s top fuel-consuming nations, Japan is the most energy insecure. Its ...

Police in Kakamigahara City, Gifu Prefecture, have arrested a 25-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he allegedly threw his two daughters from the balcony of his sixth-floor apartment ...

SEGA has released a new trailer and screenshots for Crazy Taxi: World Tour showcasing the game’s Japan map. The trailer description reads, “Japan—a country where the past intertwines with the future.

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. The UN General Assembly earlier this month voted to adopt a new map of the ...

The map in question has been made available online by the developers of the Equal Earth map projection aimed at showing countries and continents at their true sizes relative to each other. It is among ...