Japan’s long-established crime syndicates like the Yamaguchi-gumi are declining in membership, only to be replaced by tokuryū ...

The roboticist Ishiguro Hiroshi presents a future society in which scientific and technological developments have greatly ...

An Osaka Expo pavilion featuring art installations for finding resonances between people, the world, and the future.

The “Playground of Life: Jellyfish Pavilion” is located in the Signature zone. ( See the official map for details.) ...

Within this distinctive pavilion of stacked cube-shaped “cells”, made from steel frames and special concrete panels, visitors ...

Produced by filmmaker Kawase Naomi, this Osaka Expo pavilion is a place for first dialogues between strangers.

Amagasaki, Hyogo Pref., April 25 (Jiji Press)--Bereaved families and others on Friday mourned more than 100 people who died ...

An Osaka Expo pavilion with mirrors as its motif and avatars that “reflect” the speech and actions of visitors.

Tokyo, April 25 (Jiji Press)--The Tokyo metropolitan government will begin searching for the birth parents of a 67-year-old ...

None of the groundwater or river water was used for drinking. Of the 242 sites in the 22 prefectures including Tokyo, ...

There has been a pause on executions in Japan since that of Katō Tomohiro, perpetrator of the 2008 Akihabara massacre in Tokyo, who was hung on July 26, 2022 at the Tokyo Detention House. The hiatus ...

Tokyo, April 25 (Jiji Press)--Incoming Seven & i Holdings Co. President Stephen Hayes Dacus emphasized in a recent interview ...