As overtourism strains Japan’s major cities, Gifu Prefecture offers travelers a slower, more intimate way to experience the country’s culture.

Anora, a film about a sex worker who gets caught up in the world of a Russian oligarch’s son, won best picture at the Oscars.

In the country’s Yoshino forests, cedar and cypress have been tended for generations, offering an unmatched setting to ...

Japan, China and South Korea have held a health ministerial meeting and agreed to continue strengthening cooperation in the healthcare field. The meeting took place behind closed doors in Seoul on ...

Belarus has released more than 100 prisoners, including a Japanese man convicted of alleged espionage and a co-winner of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. The Belarusian government announced in a social ...

Mars has long been a fixation for humankind, imagined alternately as a utopia by 19th-century novelists, a homeland to menacing aliens by 20th-century filmmakers and an unforgiving cosmic frontier by ...

Sources say Honda Motor may start importing more of its American-made models to Japan. The plan would likely be aimed at helping to cut the US trade deficit. The sources say the Japanese automaker ...

The Japanese government plans to ask buyers of forested land to register their nationalities, starting next April. The move is aimed at keeping track of foreign property ownership across the nation.

US President Donald Trump helped arrange a ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia in October. However, forces from the two sides launched another round of deadly border attacks this week. Trump says ...