(CNN) — Japanese golfer Mao Saigo won her first LPGA major at the Chevron Championship on Sunday, and she certainly did it the hard way. The 23-year-old won a dramatic five-way playoff after ...

Three wire ropes hanging carp streamers over the Nade River in Kinokawa ... Carp streamers are seen all over Japan in the lead-up to Children's Day on May 5.

People lined up around the Ventura County Fairgrounds to get to the first day of the Spirit of Japan event. People posed for photos at the Spirit of Japan inside the San Miquel Hall. The crowd ...

Tokyo (CNN) — Don’t freak out when you try to board a flight to this southwestern Japanese prefecture and the destination on the ticket says “Hello Kitty” — you’re definitely on the ...

For his part, his admiration for our Japanese talisman is off the scale. As it now is with the rest of us. “You see the company he’s put himself into, some of the records he’s breaking and equalling, ...

(CNN) — In Japan, finding a true hidden gem seems harder than ever. In recent years, the cities of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka have become staples for most international tourists who visit.

The village of Minamiaso in Kumamoto Prefecture is home to a "hanging boulder" that remained ... a severe jolt with an intensity of 7 on the Japanese scale of 7 could occur twice.

TAIKI, Hokkaido--A long-forgotten Imperial Japanese Army pillbox discovered after decades of coastal erosion could lead to finding more, researchers say. The discovery of the bunker that dates ...