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, ...

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

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

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 ...

Japan Society will present a staged reading of the far side of the moon by Japanese playwright Izumi Kasagi, led by New ...