Former Seattle Mariners infielder Munenori Kawasaki is going viral on social media because of a hilarious interview that he gave back in his native Japan. Speaking with a roundtable-style show ...

SENDAI--As a come-on, Miyagi Prefecture hopes to be able to promise Indonesian and other Muslim workers they will be buried appropriately if they die in Japan. The prefectural government reached ...

A tourist farm in the city of Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture, is busy with visitors ... red and ripe strawberries. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun ...

At Koga Falls in the city of Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, the water flowing down ... which look as if time has stopped. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei ...

YUZAWA, Akita Prefecture—As a taxi driver escorted three ... “As there are many foreign visitors in many areas in Japan nowadays, Japanese customers say they feel ‘relieved’ in Yuzawa ...

Felip or SB19's Ken is collaborating with SKY-HI! On X (formerly Twitter), the Japanese rapper and producer announced that he will drop a new single that will feature Felip, Ryoki of BE: First, Ryuki ...

PFAS concentrations in blood samples from 87.4% of those tested in a town in Okayama Prefecture exceeded a U.S. standard for the potentially carcinogenic chemicals. The Kibichuo town government ...

Ken Rodgers, longtime managing editor of Kyoto ... and then South Africa, before coming to Japan. Rodgers arrived in Kyoto in August 1982, originally on a working holiday visa, and made a home ...

Night - Cloudy with a 40% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 4 to 11 mph (6.4 to 17.7 kph). The overnight low will be 38 °F (3.3 °C). Cloudy with a high of 50 °F (10 °C). Winds ...

Partly cloudy with a high of 44 °F (6.7 °C) and a 40% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 11 to 16 mph (17.7 to 25.7 kph). Night - Cloudy with a 21% chance of precipitation. Winds from W ...