The colorful blooms of azaleas light up public spaces and private gardens.

For Tokyo, its Southwestern region, previously neglected due to a Cold War focus on Hokkaido against the Soviet Union, is now ...

Keen Sword 25 takes aim at countering China's threats to the Japanese southwestern islands as well. U.S. military newspaper ...

Japan’s Mount Fuji has finally got its trademark snowcap, more than a month after it normally would, after setting a record ...

Japan’s Mount Fuji has finally got its trademark snowcap, more than a month after it normally would, after setting a record ...

Tsunami generated by a magnitude-7.8 quake off the southwest of Hokkaido affected coastal areas off the Sea of Japan in 1993. A magnitude-7.7. earthquake a decade earlier also damaged central ...

North Korea fired a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile toward waters off its east coast, further raising tensions in the region after the U.S. warned that its dispatch of troops to ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Mount Fuji finally got its trademark snowcap early on Wednesday, more than a month after it normally ...

Fuji, a UNESCO World Heritage site, could be seen from the southwestern side of the mountain ... also on other mountains in central Japan or on Hokkaido,” Kubota said in a Zoom call.