Kyushu Railway Company starts operations of its luxury sightseeing train in disaster-affected Kumamoto Prefecture.

A woodworker in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, creates a craft gin in hopes to promote sustainability.

Flames are lit in a ceremony at the Tower of London to mark the centenary of the end of World War I.

A sea of clouds in southwestern Japan wows visitors.

More than 13,000 cranes flock to winter to a plain in southwestern Japan.

The snow crab season kicks off on the Sea of Japan.

A YouTuber from Okinawa, southwestern Japan, introduces the charms of Shuri Castle which is undergoing restoration after...

A local train station north of Tokyo plays music from Studio Ghibli film, "My Neighbor Totoro," when trains depart.

A zookeeper at Adventure World, a park in western Japan, weighs a month-old emperor penguin.

Gardeners put up ropes on trees at a Japanese garden in central Japan to protect them from snow this winter