The term - kokushobi - translates to "cruelly hot", "brutally hot" or "severely hot", and comes after Japan's hottest summer on record.

High temperatures during the Tokyo Olympics have been making headlines around the world. In fact, the event may go down as one of the hottest and most humid in the history of the Games. Last week, ...

As summer temperatures approach 90 degrees, restaurants boast their outdoor patios and decks, and Americans pull out their biggest knives to hack through watermelons and cantaloupe, the Japanese fill ...

The Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) says that American visitor arrivals to Japan is up 3.6 percent year-to-date in 2023 over the same period (January to April) in 2019—a year that broke the ...

Japan is hoping further US-Iran talks will ease tensions in the Middle East and help reopen the Strait of Hormuz permanently, but there is also mounting anxiety over what a failure could mean for the ...