The first event of its kind in Japan converts traditional culture into a thrilling new sport of strength and technique.

Each year, monks from Shinguji, a temple in the town of Yao, Osaka Prefecture that was founded in the late 17th century, hold a massive funeral service. Last year’s ceremony was to celebrate and put ...

Häagen-Dazs’s Japan hardly ever disappoints, but hardly any ice cream has ever made our taste-tester this happy.

Ryu takes on Gouki Nalds and Chun-Li battles Smile Guile.

Number of international visitors to Japan continues to rise, but spending patterns are shifting as bargains start to dry up.

A rare case of udon being unexpected in Udon Prefecture, but where they came from is still a mystery.

On September 22, a 69-year-old man stopped by a house he owns in the Kagawa city of Mitoyo. When he opened up the refrigerator, he saw a pack of udon noodles inside, but he didn’t buy or put them ...

Free toast with your coffee? How about an entire loaf of bread, ice cream, and a souvenir to take home?

Case in point is the matter of a train driver for JR Hokkaido for “not devoting himself to his work,” as the railway put it. At about 5 p.m. on 7 October, a train was stopped at Otaru Station, when a ...

As the cultural anthropologists who make up SoraNews24’s readership are well aware, autumn is tsukimi/moon-viewing burger season in Japan, when the nation’s hamburger providers serve up sandwiches ...

For years now, Japan has been a country divided between Kinoko no Yama, which is a chocolate and cookie snack shaped like little mushrooms, and Takenoko no Sato, which is a chocolate and cookie snack ...

Nintendo took a break from expanding last year, but now it’s getting ready to open its first new location since 2023. As revealed back in May, Fukuoka is the next city to be getting a Nintendo shop, ...