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Work has yet to begin at about 30 per cent of priority heritage sites nearly 7 years after the blaze that destroyed Okinawa’s Shuri Castle.

A former ‘geiko’ theatre is reborn as the Imperial Hotel Kyoto, built around the idea that architecture can carry the past into the present ...

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Travel operators say overtourism is concentrated in Japan's high-profile destinations including Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and areas around Mount Fuji.

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Masahide Kanayama, a 63-year-old man who lived in the U.S., was brought back to Japan under the U.S.-Japan extradition treaty.

A Japanese man living in the United States was arrested Wednesday for allegedly splashing an oil-like liquid at a shrine in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, in 2015. According to the Chiba prefectural ...

CHIBA—The United States will extradite a 63-year-old doctor to Japan, where he faces arrest over damage to shrine and temple property in Chiba Prefecture more than a decade ago.