The magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido at 3:08 a.m.
The 6.6 magnitude quake hit the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido early Thursday, triggering landslides, bringing down several houses, and killing one person.
About 3,000 tourists were stuck overnight at Kansai Airport in western Japan, an important hub for companies exporting semiconductors built on reclaimed land on a bay near Osaka and connected to the mainland by a bridge that was damaged when a tanker slammed into it during the storm. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on […]
Typhoon Jebi hammered Japan’s west coast as it made landfall today with violent winds sparking urgent evacuations near areas still recovering from deadly record rain earlier this summer.
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X Japan has announced its biggest event since 2010: a three-night stand taking place Sept. 28-30 at Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall in Chiba, Japan The event is expected to be attended by about 100,000 people. Since reuniting in 2008, X Japan has staged a limited amount of shows in…
The 18th century Qianlong vase is identical to the one that took the antiques world by storm after Tony Johnson and his mother Gene offered it for sale in 2010.
The date was November 11, 1940, the place was the southern Italian port of Taranto, and the battle that ensued that night was the prelude to the Japanese raid at Pearl Harbor.
The Japan Times Unsolved mysteries: Japanese fans of the occult are engaged in a never-ending search for the truthThe Japan TimesThis was also the heyday of the UFO craze, producing some of the most infamous encounters with the extraterrestrial. In what has come to be known as the 1975 Kofu Incident, two second-graders in Kofu, […]
Paul McCartney continues to expand his Freshen Up Tour in support of his highly anticipated studio album Egypt Station, which drops Sept. 7 via Capitol Records. The iconic British rocker will make a triumphant return to Japan for 2018 shows in October and November. The 18-time Grammy winner…