Observed at 19:00, Monday 14 April BBC Weather in association with MeteoGroup, external All times are Japan Standard Time (Asia/Tokyo, GMT+9) unless otherwise stated.

Trouble between a passenger and a conductor aboard a bullet train on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line in northeastern Japan ...

HANAMAKI, Iwate Prefecture—Hotel employee Chen Mei Hui has helped to put this hot spring resort in northeastern Japan on the must-visit list for many tourists from her native Taiwan. The resort ...

Rintaro Sasaki, the left-handed power hitter who set the Japanese high school home run record (14) while playing at Hanamaki Higashi High School (Hanamaki, Iwate, Japan), has made a big first ...