Outdated teaching methods and the rise of language translation apps have made most Japanese less inclined to learn English, ...

Japan has summoned China’s ambassador over an incident in which Chinese military aircraft allegedly twice locked fire-control radar onto Japanese fighter jets, as tensions between the two countries ...

Every year EF Education First, a Switzerland-based company that provides language learning services and assistance in countries around the world, prepares its English Proficiency Index (or EF EPI) ...

Japan’s Meteorological Agency says 20-70cm (8- to 27-inch) tsunamis observed at several ports. A powerful 7.5-magnitude ...

Japan has lodged a protest with China after a Chinese military jet locked its radar on Japanese F-15 fighter jets near ...

Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the "Twitter killer" who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation's first enactment of the death penalty since 2022. He had targeted ...

The leaves of a heart-shaped ginkgo tree at the Iimori Fureai Hiroba community plaza's parking lot in the city of Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, have t･･･ ...

Students taking university entrance exams in north Japan next year may have trouble finding flights and hotel rooms. This is ...

At Naritasan Shinshoji Temple in the city of Narita, Chiba Prefecture, work is underway to create a big "shimenawa" sacred ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on April 27, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. The world's population may have recently exceeded eight billion, but it's a deceptive ...

We're totally expecting this game to go under the radar following its release on Xbox this week, but there's an interesting ...

At Tobu Zoo in the town of Miyashiro, Saitama Prefecture, an event started where people can take souvenir photos with a small ...