The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which we are living. These ...

Writer Hannah Kirshner first moved to Yamanaka Onsen to better understand its craft culture. Almost 10 years later, she’s ...

Japan’s core consumer inflation accelerated to 3.0% in December, the fastest annual pace in 16 months, data showed earlier on Friday, in a sign rising fuel and food prices continue to push up ...

It was once a thriving coal mining town with a population of over 100,000 people. But today, Yubari, located in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, is a ghost of its former self — with fewer than ...

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake occurred in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, at 2:49 a.m. on Thursday. Officials say there is no threat of tsunami. An intensity of lower 5 on Japan's seismic ...

A weekly ranking of the most popular songs in Japan combining physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, YouTube and GYAO! video views and karaoke data, compiled by Billboard Japan.

Night - Mostly clear with a 51% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 3 to 9 mph (4.8 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 38 °F (3.3 °C). Cloudy with a high of 51 °F (10.6 °C). Winds ...

Sunny with a high of 52 °F (11.1 °C) and a 40% chance of precipitation. Winds NNW at 9 to 14 mph (14.5 to 22.5 kph). Night - Partly cloudy. Winds variable at 3 to 10 mph (4.8 to 16.1 kph). The ...

The institute estimated the population of each prefecture and municipality until ... the 2011 nuclear disaster following the Great East Japan Earthquake. The ratio of people aged 75 or older ...

France's interior minister has written to all the country's préfectures, demanding that they toughen their dealings with immigrants without the correct paperwork and stop regularising 'sans ...

The median was ¥576,000 ($3,698). Tokyo is the highest, with ¥1,163. In Japan, the minimum wage is determined by each prefecture and revised annually by the Minimum Wage Council. Depending on the ...