Japan’s space program will take a giant leap forward as the country is set to land its first astronaut on the moon as early as 2028 in a U.S.-led mission. At a meeting in Washington on April 10 ...

Japan has successfully launched a rocket carrying a lunar lander, following three delays due to bad weather. The lander, dubbed the "moon sniper", is expected to attempt a Moon landing in February ...

A controversial South Korean church with powerful political connections faces dissolution in Japan after a Tokyo court ... by the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed messiah who preached ...

In others projects, Japan's JAXA plans to send a probe to the moon after August. Officials at the agency are also working with their counterparts in countries such as India to land an unmanned ...

Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon's surface it was aiming for, in a successful demonstration of its pinpoint landing system ...

In honor of Sailor Moon’s 30th anniversary ... typically sold in amulet form at many Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples across Japan. They have been in use since at least the 1600s and are ...