Tokyo will get a Harry Potter theme park due to open in 2023. The facility will display props and costumes from the wiza...

Central Japan Railway Company increases the number of Nozomi bullet trains to 12 per hour.

Witnesses report sightings of a monkey in residential areas of Tokyo over the weekend.

Osaka Temmangu Shrine streams online a usually private Shinto ceremony that is part of the annual Tenjin Festival, as ot...

East Japan Railway begins testing disinfectant robots at Tokyo's Takanawa Gateway Station to help prevent the spread of ...

Universal Studios Japan opens its door to visitors from across the country but is asking Tokyoites to consider their tri...

Researchers have identified a fireball seen streaking across the night sky over wide areas of Japan in early July as a m...

The Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park opens after a two-and-a-half-month delay due to the novel coronavirus pandemic....

Japan's household spending has continued to fall amid the coronavirus pandemic. But "nest spending" is a silver lining f...

A new model of the Shinkansen bullet train goes into service between Tokyo and Hakata. The N700S is the first fully remo...