With his dream of inhabiting the red planet out of reach, Kenji Yoshikawa instead sought out similar landscapes on Earth and teaches kids about Mars-style permafrost.
Tokyo resident Yusuke Terada, who has trouble walking due to cerebral palsy, recently launched a project called Helpush, where he travels throughout Japan with the assistance of strangers who help push his wheelchair. More than 200 people have helped him out since he started the ...
Starting May 15, 2018, Austrian Airlines will offer up to five weekly nonstop flights from Narita International Airport to Vienna on a Boeing 777 aircraft. The summer flight schedule will be available on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. "We temporarily terminated flight service from ...
A Delta Air Lines passenger was charged on Friday with instigating a midair brawl with flight attendants and other passengers who fought desperately to restrain him as he tried opening the exit door of a plane bound from Seattle to China. Joseph Daniel Hudek IV, ...
Japan begins converting its traffic signs to bilingual ones to help foreign drivers navigate the country more easily ahead of the 2020 Olympics.
With President Donald Trump's travel ban taking effect Thursday, the White House declared victory on the first major policy push of his presidency. But it was not the win Trump had imagined. What was once described as a blanket ban on Muslims, before becoming a ...
To celebrate next year's 60th anniversary, the Ootoya chain has renewed its first restaurant in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district. Ootoya Shokudo diner was opened in 1958, the same year the construction of Tokyo Tower was completed. The restaurant aimed to provide home-style cooking just like mom ...
In-flight internet access, a nascent market still hobbled by slow speeds, is set to take off, as dedicated satellites make surfing in the skies a reality, experts say. Even bans imposed by Britain and the United States on bringing laptops and tablets on board flights ...
President Donald Trump is set to announce curbs on U.S. firms doing business with the Cuban military and tighter rules on travel to the island Friday, as he moves to roll back an opening initiated by Barack Obama. Trump will travel on Friday to Miami, ...
U.S. airline passenger complaints leapt 70 percent in April from a year earlier after a series of high-profile incidents including a passenger being dragged off a United Airlines flight, the government said on Wednesday. Complaints rose to 1,909 in April, the U.S. Department of Transportation ...
On a highway in Banff National Park in western Canada, tourists hastily park their cars to catch a glimpse of a bear at the edge of the forest. "We've seen some amazing animal life up here, much more than a lot of other places that ...
A reader shares her experiences with internet banking upon leaving Japan on a temporary basis.
