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 ...

A set of hina dolls is on display at Higashiosaka city hall in Osaka Prefecture. The dolls, crafted by a local company, are ...

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 ...

The foreign-language sentences are accompanied by a Japanese translation as well as a separate translation of each individual word. Each chapter also comes with commentaries on the language’s ...