Japan Travel News

Started in 1992 in Canada by artist Ted Dave, the Buy Nothing Day movement [en] has spread to more than 60 countries around the world, Japan included.

Researchers aim to launch full-scale system by 2030. David Cyranoski Experiments this year with an airship transmitted enough power to charge a mobile phone on the ground.

Tokyo's frenetic streets hum with electricity and motion, but the city's shrines and parks offer the traveler oases of calm.

President Barack Obama's deep bow to Japan's emperor has been castigated by U.S. critics as kowtowing to a foreign leader, but experts in Japanese etiquette praised it as an appropriate show of respect.

My son's obsessed with Bakugan action figures, and now it seems his interest has broadened to all things related to Japan.

President Obama toured the Great Wall Wednesday alone. The vendors usually lining the wall had been shut down by the Chinese authorities.

Obama in Japan Refuses to Defend U.S. Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki >> Posted By avoth 7 hours, 31 minutes ago in Political Opinion Here is video of President Obama in Japan today where he refused to defend the U.S. dropping of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II.

Nestled in the heart of the Kansai region of Japan, Nara City exudes a subdued atmosphere unique from its neighboring Osaka and Kyoto.

THE number of Japanese tourists who visited the CNMI in October plunged by 47 percent orA 7,592 less compared to the previous month.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra performed its mostly American program in six different concert halls in Japan: NHK Hall, Suntory Hall and Bunka Kaikan Concert Hall in Tokyo; Aichi Arts Center in Nagoya; Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Nishinomiya; and Minato Mirai Concert Hall in Yokohama.

On Friday, this NewsBuster noted how Pres. Obama, questioned at a news conference in Japan, twice refused to say whether he thought the United States' dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was "the right decision." Yesterday on Fox News Watch, Jim Pinkerton noted the NewsBusters nugget.A The Fox News contributor and New America ...

A retired Army nurse was saluted by Gov. John Baldacci as the nation honored its veterans.

Even White House press secretary Robert Gibbs found the time change startling as President Barack Obama 's tour of Asia got under way.

CATS opened in Yokohama on November 11th. The world renowned musical CATS opened in Yokohama, Japan on November 11th, 26 years after it first premiered in the country by the Shiki Theatre Company .

I enjoy new places and things, and went through a week packed to the brim with both.

President Barack Obama says he wants to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki sometime during his presidency but won't have time during this week's trip to Japan to go to the cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombs at the end of World War II.

Japan is expected to report as early as this week that its greenhouse gas emissions sank last year, the first year of its Kyoto Protocol obligations.

Despite Japan's longstanding calls for the elimination of nuclear weapons, government officials in recent months have been voicing concern that progress in disarmament could erode the credibility of the U.S. nuclear umbrella, upon which Japan relies.

On this field trip, my fourteen year old son has met the mayor of our sister city, Hikone , toured a 400 year old castle , and paraded in an authentic Samurai costume complete with real swords.

Stopping into the Misawa bookstore for a fun book to read as I prepared to travel for another 10 days, I spotted T.C. Boyle's newest book, The Women.