The preservation society of Funehoko, one of the floats of the Gion Festival, held a Shinmen Aratame ritual to confirm the safety of the masks to put on goshintai divine objects.

At least 60 earthquakes measuring 1 or stronger on the Japanese seismic intensity scale have hit areas around the Tokara ...

Manga artist Shirow Masamune’s “The Ghost in the Shell” is said to have predicted the information society that we live in ...

Japan’s Nikkei share average inched higher on Friday, as chip-related stocks tracked a strong overnight performance on Wall ...

Every yacht in this summer’s Ocean Race Europe will double as a floating laboratory, gathering vital ocean data as crews ...

Aline of evidence is providing further corroboration of the antiquity of fossilized footprints discovered at White Sands ...

The rainy season appears to have ended in the Tokai region, it was announced Friday. According to the Japan Meteorological ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said on June 25, capturing rare direct images ...

Famed Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. has been arrested for overstaying his visa and lying on a green card application ...

Archaeologists have discovered what they say are the remains of a 16th-century merchant ship more than 2.5 kilometers underwater off southern France, the deepest such find in its section of the ...

The Roman Catholic Church has chosen an American-born cardinal as its new pope, and he has taken the name Leo XIV. Many of ...

It’s been about half a year, but let’s get back into this ramen series, starting with Hokkaido, the great northern land. When ...