The Oku-Musashi Ekiden is a challenging race with a 120-meter elevation difference, and some participating teams have also ...

The Vietnamese communities in Japan’s Saitama prefecture and the U.K.’s London marked the Tet (lunar New Year) holiday with ...

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SAITAMA--City education authorities here reinstated a sixth-grade girl who was expelled last September after her family lost ...

Investigators from the police station found the ambulance in a parking space for a drugstore about 100 meters away from the ...

ONE Championship chairman and CEO Chatri Sityodtong was blown away by the buzz surrounding the promotion's latest blockbuster last weekend, ONE 170.

Masaaki Noiri confirmed he is set to return to action again soon in Japan, after finally getting off the mark in ONE ...

The Robbie Deans-coached Saitama Wild Knights head into the first bye weekend of the Japan Rugby League One season at the top ...

With more and more overseas travelers seeking out day trips to the Japanese countryside while visiting big cities, it’s ...

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Prefecture--The Seibuen Amusement ... themed on the live-action superhero TV series that first ran in Japan in the latter half of the 1960s. Visitors act as rookie members ...

Night - Clear. Winds variable at 5 to 6 mph (8 to 9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 34 °F (1.1 °C). Partly cloudy with a high of 57 °F (13.9 °C). Winds variable at 3 to 6 mph (4.8 to 9.7 kph ...

Japan's social media-influenced youth have begun romanticizing ... and the patterns on the mugs are really cute," said a ...