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Japan Photo Journal: Visitors harvest water shield from small boats in Akita Pref.

Visitors to Kitabayashi Nojo farm in the Akita Prefecture town of Mitane take part in water shield picking on May 31, 2026, at the peak of the harvest

A-bomb legacy successor brings Hiroshima hibakusha's story to hometown audience

UWAJIMA, Ehime -- A 70-year-old woman striving to pass on the realities of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima recounted the experience of a hibakusha sur

Retro Japan: Iwakuni museum looks angular from outside, but inside, curves catch the eye

IWAKUNI, Yamaguchi -- This western Japan city once flourished as a castle town. Walking past its white-walled buildings, visitors come upon six angula

Resort town near Tokyo offers gondola with spatial audio system

YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) -- A gondola with a spatial audio system has been introduced on a scenic ropeway in a famous hot spring and resort town southwest of

Living in Japan -- an exchange student's view: Walking forward without a map (Pt. 15)

I first visited Japan in 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic began. One evening in Odaiba, I rode the Ferris wheel at Palette Town. (It was taken

Osaka High Court backs safety approval for Oi nuclear reactors

The high court found that the NRA's safety approval for the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors at the nuclear plant in the town of Oi was reasonable.

Japan shipbuilding town looks to foreign workers, AI amid labor crunch

Magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes Kagoshima

Police in the town of Yoron, which experienced the strongest shaking, have said there have been no reports of damage resulting from the quake.