A weekly ranking of the most popular songs in Japan combining physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, YouTube and GYAO! video views and karaoke data, compiled by Billboard Japan.

The Cheops Pyramid is the most ancient and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis, which borders the modern city of Giza in Egypt. Credit: Nina, CC BY 2.5 Pyramids are geometric ...

As cinema spreads across the globe, Japan shines as one of the leading and cherished film industries, especially having earned more Academy Awards than any other nation in Asia. While it is ...

Japanese knotweed is a fast-growing and strong clump-forming perennial, with tall, dense annual stems. Stem growth is renewed each year from the stout, deeply-penetrating Rhizomes are creeping swollen ...

Vincent van Gogh loved Japanese prints. He started collecting prints for fun, but they ultimately taught him a new way of looking at the world. Discover how Japanese prints changed Vincent’s art for ...

Any seismic activity of an intensity of 3 or higher on the Japanese scale that has occurred in the past 30 days is noted here.