Let's take a look at five such interesting Japanese seasonal festivals you never heard of. The Aomori Nebuta Matsuri takes ...

Emperor Naruhito attended the 75th National Tree-Planting Festival at Chichibu Muse Park in Saitama Prefecture on Sunday. In his address at the annual event, the emperor looked back on climbing ...

Saitama Prefecture. Police said Deng Hongpeng, a Chinese man who works in the demolition industry, turned himself at a police station in Misato at around 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, NHK reported. He was ...

Police arrested a 42-year-old Chinese man Sunday in connection with a hit-and-run incident in Saitama Prefecture that injured several schoolchildren last week. The suspect, Deng Hongpeng ...

The festival is held at the prefectural Akigase Park in Saitama to celebrate the New Year and the coming of spring. The event features participants dancing to folk music. The Japan Kurdish ...

KUMAGAYA, Saitama Prefecture--Chichibu Railway Co. said it will resume operations of the Paleo Express, its only steam locomotive, in February after a 14-month hiatus. The Paleo Express ...

The festival group wants everyone to be safe from the extreme heat. Japan's Tohoku area also has changes. Fukushima Prefecture has a famous horse festival called Soma Nomaoi. But last July ...

If you go to Japan, there’s a chance you might meet someone with an unusual name – such as “Nike,” “Pikachu” or “Pudding.” While still a minority, these names have grown in ...

Japanese geisha are taking to the stage in Tokyo for the weeklong Azuma Odori festival. This year marks the centenary of the annual event, which has carried on a tradition despite dwindling numbers.

Yudai Matsuzaki’s idea to produce craft gin in Japan, a nation where whisky and shochu are the most popular spirits, came from a simple desire to make use of a forest where he played as a child.

As the largest annual Vietnamese festival in Japan, the event attracts a large community of Vietnamese residents, Japanese friends, and international visitors eager to explore Vietnamese culture ...