The characters for Mt. Sougaku on the signpost match the Japanese on the map. Moriya's long-time friend Mike Kaye is from UK. He told NHK World in an email that he also wants to see bilingual maps.

Rising tensions between Israel and Iran and an increasing American military presence in the Middle East left a "carrier gap" ...

Earlier this month, a map showing Dokdo as Japanese territory was distributed at a travel fair in Seoul, causing ...

Japan, despite an officially pacifist Constitution written when memories of its World War II rampage were still fresh--and painful--boasts a military that puts all but a few nations to shame.

Krishna Srinivasan, Director of IMF of Asia and Pacific Department, talks to CNBC's Martin Soong about Japan and China's ...

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This was the dawn of Japan’s “bullet train” era, widely regarded as the defining symbol of the country’s astonishing recovery from the trauma of World War II. In tandem with the 1964 ...

For centuries, Japanese artists and poets have been inspired by Mount Fuji's almost perfectly round form. The Fuji Five Lakes region at the foot of this UNESCO World Heritage Site makes a great ...

A Japanese court found an 88-year-old former boxer not guilty on Thursday after a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, reversing a decision that made him the world's longest-serving death row inmate.

A World War II bomb exploded from beneath an airport in Japan on Wednesday, canceling over 80 flights. The blast left a large crater on the taxiway, but remarkably, there were no aircraft nearby and ...

TOKYO, Oct 2 (Reuters) - A regional airport in southwest Japan was closed on Wednesday after a U.S. bombshell, likely dropped during World War Two to stem "kamikaze" attacks, exploded near its ...