In winter, Japan’s northernmost main island Hokkaido is a place of snow-covered forests and white-crested volcanoes mirrored ...

Victoria Heath speaks to five researchers on the fallout of political and financial upheaval following Trump 2.0 From climate science to maternal healthcare, research labs to ocean innovation, people ...

Pandas have stood for friendship between China and Japan since 1972. But the last two are about to go, and a dispute over ...

Thousands of people flocked to Tokyo’s Ueno zoo to have a last glimpse of the popular twin pandas that are set to return to ...

Thousands of people flocked to Tokyo’s Ueno zoo to have a last glimpse of the popular twin pandas that are set to return to ...

Japan has issued a tsunami advisory after a 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook the country’s northeast. The quake occurred off the east coast of Aomori prefecture, in the north of Honshu, the main ...

Yurina Noguchi, 32, waves her bouquet toward an image of Klaus, her AI partner, displayed on her mobile phone after their ...

Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means.

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Crunchyroll unveiled its Winter 2026 anime streaming lineup, which includes over 50 new and returning anime series, as well ...

Crunchyroll has announced its Winter 2026 anime lineup, confirming the titles that will begin streaming on the platform early ...

Shippuden's lore as those known as the Tailed Beasts, or Bijuu. Their origins are as fascinating as those of the shinobi ...