Hisako Ueno and Mike Ives

An ongoing eruption from the volcano has created a small land mass less than a mile off Iwo Jima island. It’s a great case study...

After three years of Covid-era masking, some Japanese people feel their facial expressions are a bit rusty. Enter Keiko Kawano, smile instructor.

Technically, it’s a replica of the polka-dot plastic creation that was damaged by a storm last year. But regardless, people are happy.

As Japan’s macaque population grows, clashes with humans are becoming more frequent. More than 50 people were injured by recent monkey attacks in one western...

An official in the rural Japanese town wired the 24-year-old man nearly $360,000 by mistake. He lost it in online casinos. Now, the town is...

“Old Enough!,” a Japanese show that has been on the air for decades, recently came to Netflix. It features toddlers running errands without adult supervision.