In the northerly prefecture of Aomori, locals have a unique obsession with apples, which can be experienced in the region’s fields, bars and even onsens.

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Skiing at Niseko Grand Hirafu should be on every skier's bucket list. There’s enough snow to go around, and then some.

Kylie Kelce was a guest on Travis and Jason Kelce's podcast, "New Heights" for their annual holiday episode. During the holiday special, the conversation of a Japanese Maple. The topic began when ...

A Christmas tree decorated with lost items has appeared at JR Hakata Station in the city of Fukuoka. At Hakata Station, there are about 45,000 lost items every year. Children from day care centers ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is considering adding Japanese language proficiency as a requirement for permanent residency for foreign nationals, sources familiar with the matter have said. To ...

The leaves of a heart-shaped ginkgo tree at the Iimori Fureai Hiroba community plaza's parking lot in the city of Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, have turned yellow. Many people are visiting to take ...

More than 850 trees have been planted by volunteers including primary school children to create a Japanese-style microforest. The pupils, aged four to 11, helped to plant a mixture of native woodland ...

In an increasingly diverse Japan, more and more young people come from non-Japanese backgrounds. Ensuring that they get the training they need to succeed in the Japanese language, at higher levels of ...

PARIS, Dec 2 - French oil major TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA), opens new tab and its partner Tree Energy Solutions will jointly develop synthetic methane with Japanese firms Osaka Gas, Toho Gas and Itochu ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — It was a day of smiles and fun as friends and families of participants gathered for the GRACE Foundation’s tree lighting event on Saturday. The foundation’s headquarters at 460 ...

NINOSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western island started making the treat that has thrived in ...