Russia appears keen to boost patriotism among residents on four islands that Japan calls the Northern Territories. Russia controls the islands but Japan claims them. Japan marks Northern ...

A confectionery store in Kofu City, central Japan has started making a good luck cake ahead of Setsubun, the last day of winter on the traditional calendar. The product called "kirisansho" has a ...

Plus: Prizes have been added in new categories including the "Co-creation categories" linked to companies involved in music. By Billboard Japan Day 2 of MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN, the largest ...

Hosaka resolved to do something about this and with a modest budget and big amount of resolve he forged the NHK Writers’ Development Room (WDR), inviting pitches from wannabe Japanese TV drama ...

An initial tsunami wave approximately 1 meter (3.2 feet) high made landfall within 30 minutes of the earthquake, the Associated Press reported, citing Japanese public broadcaster NHK TV.

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck southwest Japan on Monday ... Public broadcaster NHK TV said that a tsunami with a height of approximately one metre reached land within 30 minutes of the ...

Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! episode 1’s focus on dual protagonists Kitase Kazuhiro and Marie was multifaceted, highlighting their interactions both in Marie’s world and in Japan. Likewise ...

Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! episode 3 was expected to continue focusing on Kazuhiro and Marie as they went to sleep in Marie’s world and returned to Japan. Officially released on Friday ...

Before Marie Kondo stormed into the global consciousness, Hideko Yamashita taught Japan the art of creating tidier spaces. “In many ways, having to face our things is like having to face ...

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Born on Feb. 1, 1968, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Lisa Marie Presley was the only child of musician and rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley.