Asian shares sank on Friday in early trading after US stocks surrendered a chunk of their historic gains from the day before. The deepening worries over president Donald Trump’s trade war helped pull ...

In other words, Canada will pay a benefit amount reflecting the portion of your periods that are creditable under Canada's pension program, and Japan will pay a benefit amount reflecting the portion ...

Hatsushima Station, a relatively not-so-busy station in Japan’s Arida town, serving 530 riders per day, was due for a replacement of a weathered wooden complex, and in just six hours, it got a ...

Pigeon River Country State Forest sustained staggering damage in its red pine plantation. Heavy from thick ice, tree tops snapped off. An aerial view looks like a forest of sticks as seen in a ...

Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato stated Japan will not use its U.S. Treasury bonds as leverage against American tariffs. This was in response to a suggestion to sell the bonds as retaliation. Kato ...

While Japan is not a member of NATO, both Tokyo and the alliance leaders seem eager to work together as NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte visits the Asian country ...

FRANKFURT, Germany/TOKYO -- The European Union is considering a virtual ban on carbon fiber in motor vehicles that could take a toll on the material's Japanese manufacturers, which have more than ...

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A Japanese forest and trails that were forgotten long ago. There are no blogs, no maps, and nothing that shows where they lead. Today we camp out in Japan, and hike them to see where they take us.

The city of Ofunato in Iwate Prefecture has declared that a massive forest fire that had ravaged ... making it one of the largest wildfires in Japan since the start of the Heisei era in 1989.

In the city of Goto, Nagasaki Prefecture, western Japan, a forest fire at one point was only about 100 meters from a residential area. Fire officials said the blaze was gradually losing its strength.