On February 22, over 34,000 runners will flood the streets of Osaka for the city’s 14th annual marathon. And this isn’t your typical leisurely city race: the 2026 Osaka Marathon serves as a Marathon ...

A 200 kilometre autumn cycling journey through Yamaguchi reveals samurai heritage, terraced rice fields and the warmth of coastal and mountain communities. Japan’s mountains, coastlines and farmlands ...

Cyclist Michael Rice pedals Wakayama’s sacred routes, tasting persimmons, plums and mountain stillness. Wakayama appears first as a sweep of ocean and sky, the kind of view that makes you forget you ...

We visit the Goto Islands on Japan's western tip, meeting people with hospitality, like a couple passing on the history of hidden Christians and islanders trying to preserve their small community.

The number of flights from China to Japan is expected to drop 43 percent around the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday compared to last year. The estimate was made by a Chinese firm analyzing flight ...

The latest NHK opinion poll suggests the approval rate for Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae's Cabinet stands at 62 percent, down two points from last month, and the disapproval rate at 21 percent, up two ...

NHK’s annual New Year’s Eve music contest, “Kohaku Uta Gassen,” has been accused of being out of touch in recent years. The latest edition pushed back hard against that critique. The 76th “Kohaku” — a ...

The number of Japanese nationals living in China declined in 2025 amid China's slowing economy and concerns about security. The Japanese foreign ministry has released an annual report of statistics on ...

It has been learned that images posted on the social media platform X have been edited by the generative AI service Grok to depict pornography. NHK has confirmed several cases in Japan of celebrity ...

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said certain political forces in Japan are trying to reverse the course of history. The comment is said to have been made in reference to remarks by Japan's Prime ...

Japan's Defense Ministry has announced that North Korea launched at least two ballistic missiles on Sunday morning. The ministry said the missiles were launched from near the west coast of North Korea ...