The annual Utakai Hajime Ceremony, also known as the Imperial New Year's Poetry Reading, is held at the Imperial Palace ...

A winter festival in which married men are thrown onto a snowy hill takes place in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan.

Tunneling work for the maglev bullet is unveiled for the first time.

Part of the stone walls at Echizen Ono Castle, referred to as a castle in the sky, is found to be damaged after a powerf...

A tuna fetches more than 100 million yen in the first auction of 2024 at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo.

Wild monkeys are seen playing at a temple in northeastern Japan and holding a rope attached to a bell, as if praying.

The Nozomi bullet train starts running without non-reserved seats.

A shop that sells Japan-made luxury products opens in Haneda Airport to woo foreign visitors.

Wild monkeys gather around space heaters in a zoo in southwestern Japan.

Alligators in a tropical garden in Shizuoka Prefecture get their year-end wash-up.