The Konomiya Naked Festival, known as a bizarre festival, was held at Konomiya Jinja shrine in the city of Inazawa, Aichi ...

The final qualifying round of women's ice hockey for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics was held in the city of Tomakomai, ...

A Japanese company called Logbar has created a gadget that translates your words instantly so it could make travelling the world much easier. The device is called "ili" and at the moment it only ...

The Sapporo Snow Festival started on February 4 in Sapporo, Hokkaido. It is a famous Japanese festival celebrating snow and ...

Soy sauce containers that are included in boxes of shumai dumplings made by Kiyoken, based in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, and sold as "Old-fashione･･･ ...

At NHK STRL, we have been researching and developing a Japanese-English AI (artificial intelligence) translation system for news in order to support the production of English news for NHK’s ...

Manga is a 14 billion-dollar industry for Japan, but it would be even bigger if it weren't for online sites offering stolen versions of the comics. A Tokyo start-up hopes artificial intelligence ...