Hikonyan, an official cat mascot of the city of Hikone in Shiga Prefecture, helps pound mochi at Hikone Castle to prepar...

Odakyu Electric Railway's white Romancecar train retires after 18 years of service mainly between Tokyo and the Hakone h...

A Buddhist temple in Kyoto offers radish soup to visitors, a tradition that has continued for more than 700 years.

A road sign in northern Japan is fixed after having a humorously wrong English translation on it for more than 30 years.

The international departure area of Kansai Airport in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, reopens after undergoing renovati...

A new area featuring Donkey Kong will open at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka in the spring of 2024.

A dog walking event for the Akita Inu breed takes place in Tokyo to mark 100 years since the birth of Hachiko, the faith...

Workers at Naritasan Shinshoji Temple in Chiba Prefecture weave sacred ropes from rice straw.

A ceremony takes place in Tokyo to mark 500 days to go until the Osaka Expo begins in western Japan.

A new theme park called "Junglia" will open in northern Okinawa Prefecture in 2025.