The zoo opened in 1915 and is the third oldest in Japan, following Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo and Kyoto City Zoo. About 1.71 million people visited Tennoji Zoo in fiscal 2023, compared with ...

Tokyo’s iconic Ueno Zoological Gardens opened in 1882 as the first zoo in Japan. During the period of the nation's rapid economic growth after World War II many public zoos opened, one after ...

By River Akira Davis and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo and across the Noto Peninsula on Japan’s northwest coast A decade after one of the most devastating atomic-energy disasters in history ...

When Art Week Tokyo first welcomed international ... usual script by bussing VIPs directly to galleries rather than staging another art fair in the Japanese capital. Two years on, the formula ...

The "Türkiye Festival" held in Tokyo, Japan, brought vibrant moments as Japanese attendees enjoyed Turkish music and dance performances. Participants, including local dancers, joined in the ...

Evan Felsing, representing the U.S. embassy in Tokyo, grabbed the audience’s attention by delivering a speech on the importance of Japan and the U.S. collaborating on misuse of AI, preventing ...

By Hisako Ueno and John Yoon Hisako Ueno reported from Tokyo, and John Yoon from Seoul. Jun Mizuno’s bar in Toyama, Japan, used to open at 5 p.m. But after Shohei Ohtani began his first season ...

22, 2024, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) A huge screen in Osaka, western Japan shows a news report on Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani winning his third Most Valuable Player award, Friday, Nov.

The finest of margins can change the career of athletes, as Ueno Miyu found out as skip of her Karuizawa-based club at the 2024 Japan Curling Championships. Just two years removed from winning her ...

Tokyo protested and sought an explanation from Beijing after a Chinese Y-9 reconnaissance plane briefly entered Japanese airspace off the southern main island of Kyushu on Aug. 26, prompting Japan ...

The weaker yen is changing the image of Japan being an expensive destination, and the crowds can be felt particularly in Tokyo and Kyoto. But there are many ways to avoid the crowds in Japan. Here are ...