Japan Travel News

Manila Thursday (December 3) in response to the results of the Post-Disaster Needs Assessment conducted recently by the World Bank, Katsura noted. At the same address today, Katsura also mentioned a number of other Japanese assistance projects to the Philippines...

Japan plans to send hundreds of military personnel to Sudan next year to join UN peacekeepers overseeing an agreement that ended a 21-year North-South civil war, a report said Monday. The government plans to send hundreds of army personnel to the...

The operator of Narita International Airport plans to abolish the security checkpoints at the railway stations located within its premises amid calls that the airport should be more user-friendly. Officials of Narita International Airport Corp said Sunday the company is...

There is no massive statue at Sagami Bay of an angel with a sword and a coronet...The Great Buddha sits peacefully among the trees of Kamakura...These were all objectives in Operation Coronet, the planned seaborne attack on Tokyo in World...

Two people were killed in a house fire in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, on Thursday morning, local police said. They are believed to be Tomoo Ito, 55, and his 79-year-old mother, who have remained unaccounted for since the fire broke out...

Authorities announced Monday that around 270 people, including 110 Kinki area riot police, joined in a search for more remains of Miyako Hiraoka, the 19-year-old Shimane University student who was found murdered in the mountains of Hiroshima Prefecture earlier this...

Police have identified three of the four people who died in Sunday's fire at a restaurant in Tokyo's Koenji district, while at least four other people died in fires in other parts of the country Monday. Two of the four...