A Disney-themed shinkansen bullet train adorned with characters from hit films such as "Frozen" was shown to the media in ...

Full-bloom forecast for Kansai/Kinki Hikone: April 7 (2 days earlier than last year) Kyoto: April 2 (3 days earlier than last ...

In celebration of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai World Expo, Japan Airlines (JAL) has announced a special Gundam collaboration with Bandai Namco.

A captain of a Peach Aviation flight MM774 (APJ774) operating from Singapore to Osaka, Japan, on Jan. 7, 2025, was found to have consumed alcohol before the flight. He violated the "no-drinking period ...

More details have emerged about possible non-gaming facilities by third-party private investors that might go near the under-development MGM Osaka, Japan’s first and so far only integrated resort (IR) ...

Bolster your itineraries with ANA's multiple stopover & domestic add-on services to see more of Japan when you jet over for ...

Just 16% of respondents to a weekend poll conducted by the Mainichi Shimbun said they want to go to see the 2025 World Expo, ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about the Japan Pavilion for the 2025 World Exposition in ...

President Donald Trump last week indicated that discussions had started around a summit to address how to end the Ukraine war.

With less than two months until the opening of this mega event, sales of advance tickets are not growing as hoped. To attract ...

Japan is betting $1.5bn on a breakthrough in next-generation ultra-thin, light and bendy solar panels, subsidising the commercialisation of a technology that analysts say could disrupt China’s ...

While rural areas have long struggled with depopulation, a tipping point for urban centres is expected by 2035, according to ...