From around the globe, these 15 statues are the tallest as of 2025… Note: the heights listed are based on the statue’s ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...

A piano damaged in a tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan in 2011 has been put on display at Sendai Airport in Miyagi Prefecture for anyone to play. The instrument was engulfed in the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Japan is fighting an extensive forest fire in northern Japan which has damaged dozens of homes and forced ...

Japan has deployed more than 2,000 firefighters to battle the country's biggest forest fire in three decades. At least one person has died in the blaze, which has torched more than 5,200 acres ...

By Jin Yu Young and Hisako Ueno Hisako Ueno reported from Tokyo. Japan’s largest wildfire in more than three decades was burning through a forested area of a small coastal city on Sunday after ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, center, appears at a fashion event in Tokyo Saturday, March 1, 2025 ...

You can get in touch with Micah by emailing [email protected]. Japan's population has dwindled for 15 consecutive years, as fewer people marry and have children. About 30 percent of ...

Selected as one of Japan’s Top 100 Cherry Blossom Spots ... Just outside Sendai City, the massive Sendai Daikannon stands as the main hall of Daikannonji Temple and is one of the tallest statues in ...

As Japan sees record-breaking numbers of foreign visitors, regional cities — in addition to major tourist destinations — are grappling with an unexpected surge in travelers. Social media has ...

SENDAI—The front half of the 100-meter-tall Sendai Daikannon here has turned pink during the first full-scale repair work on the usually shiny white standing Buddhist statue. Pink paint has been ...