The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group will carry out the week-long French-hosted exercise Pacific Steller with the French CSG ...

Warships are a critical component of any military, but some ships were designed to intimidate through their sheer size. Here ...

In late December Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi visited China, where he took part in a series of meetings with his counterpart Wang Yi and other Chinese officials. The trip gave the ...

TOKYO -- Japan welcomed a record 36.87 million tourists in 2024, up 47.1% from the previous year thanks to the weak yen, according to data released Wednesday by the Japan National Tourism ...

A record number of visitors came to Japan in 2024, thanks to surging post-pandemic global tourism and a decline in the yen that’s making the island nation an attractive and affordable destination.

Hideaki Anno is creating a new Space Battleship Yamato film. What is the enduring legacy of this series in Japan? Part of the reason I was asked to contribute to the Answerman column is because I ...

In 2005 and 2019, there were big-budget, high-grossing live-action feature films about the famous Japanese battleship Yamato, sunk on an Okinawa suicide mission of her own. Perhaps 4000 pilots ...

The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake’s preliminary magnitude at 6.8. The Japan Meteorological Agency said it had an intensity of lower 5 on the Japanese scale of 0 to 7. The quake began at ...