Japan Travel News

The Peace Memorial Ceremony is held on August 6th in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, commemorating the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima.

Reactivated British extreme metal pioneers CARCASS have added the following dates to their current itinerary: Oct.

Before we get to the grand finale and epilogue, a few random observations that I never really managed to shoehorn in anywhere else: - Japan still has coin-operated left-luggage lockers, everywhere .

Tobu Railway Co. and others concerned held a ceremony Monday to mark the beginning of construction work on the 610-meter ''Tokyo Sky Tree'' to be completed in Tokyo's Sumida Ward in the spring of 2012.

Japanese immersion students and their families tell of two weeks in foreign land.

The British Ambassador to Japan, Sir Graham Fry, has urged governments, business and private citizens to take immediate steps to combat global warming at a high-level forum on climate change hosted by Lloyd's ...

TOKYO : Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. plans to build a new lithium-ion battery plant in western Japan, a move that will triple its current output capacity to meet soaring global demand, the daily Yomiuri ...

Members of the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito reached an agreement Wednesday in the Osaka prefectural assembly to cut assembly members' salaries by 15 percent, and policy research expenses provided to ...

Shopping for skeletons, posting pictures of terrorists in a window to shoo away birds, and trying to quit smoking in Japan - looks like snapshots from a Benadryl-induced dream.

Eco-Tourism in Japan by greenz.jp, Tokyo, Japan on 07.11.08 Ecotourism or green tourism started getting attention in Japan about 15 years ago, and if you carbon offset your airticket you could probably spend a ...

Japan will play Uruguay next month in a warm-up for their World Cup qualifier against Bahrain, the Japan Football Association said Friday.

Masahiko Ohtsuka, president of Automotive Energy Supply Corp., a joint venture between Nissan Motor Co.

Chana R. Schoenberger , When foreigners go to Japan, Tokyo tops their list of places to see.

The world's top industrialized nations begin their annual summit Monday confronted with demands they reinvigorate the world economy, push ahead languishing climate change talks and make good on pledges to ...

Climate change, soaring oil prices and possible steps against Zimbabwe were high on the agenda as leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers gathered in Japan for their annual summit.

Twenty South Korean activist farmers have been detained by Japanese immigration for over 19 hours and expect to be deported, a spokesman for the group said, in further signs of growing security jitters from the ...

Startled awake by lurking footsteps delicately approaching my room, I sprang upright in the plush down bedding.

More than 1,000 people marched in northern Japan on Saturday to protest an upcoming summit of the top industrialized countries, and police arrested four protesters after a brief scuffle.

' The shimmer off of brightly colored food lining the window of a Japanese restaurant caught the eye of Tammy Cox one summer afternoon.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel took a tough stance against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, condemning his re-election last week as illegitimate and vowing in an interview with The Associated Press that the ...