With a settlement over the sovereignty of a group of Japan-claimed islands off Hokkaido under Russian control —after nearly three-quarters of a century—nowhere in sight, some Japanese visitors to the area said they have almost given up hope of seeing the territories returned. As a ...

Soldiers were merely "expendables" in the Imperial Japanese Army, says a 98-year-old survivor from World War II. Junichi Tanigawa was called into the army twice — in 1938 and 1943 — and fought in China and Burma. While Tanigawa was a standard soldier, his younger brother, ...

Radio waves emitted by Tokyo Skytree may help make it easier to predict a heavy downpour in the Tokyo metropolitan area by the time the capital hosts the 2020 Olympic Games, according to research by the Tokyo-based National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. The ...

Hiroshima Prefecture boasts of being Japan's No. 1 producer of oysters, which have traditionally only been available in the colder months. Now oystermen are working to turn them into a summer delicacy, too. Fishermen and fisheries industry officials along with the municipality of Etajima are ...