The fire, in a forested area of the coastal city of Ofunato, killed at least one person and prompted evacuation orders for ...

Travel in Japan is about to get easier thanks to the launch of the Welcome Suica app, scheduled to debut March 6. Developed ...

Though it recovered in the second half of the year, Japan’s economy barely grew in 2024 as a depreciated yen fueled inflation ...

February 13, 2025, at 5:35 PM ET: Microsoft confirmed that it will update Bing Maps to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America for users in the United States. A Microsoft spokesperson ...

The United States and Google and Apple have officially updated maps to the Gulf of America. President Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in an executive order signed on ...

The company said it would update Maps in the US after the Geographic Names Information System made the changes. The GNIS, a database of more than 2 million physical and cultural features ...

The Geographic Names Information System ... the name of which has been in dispute between Japan and South Korea. In Google Maps in the United States, the sea is designated the Sea of Japan ...

The company will also evaluate secondary to age-related macular degeneration in Japan. Geographic atrophy is a progressive form of AMD that can cause irreversible vision loss, with no treatments ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People remove snow from a street in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP) A ...

Netflix confirmed new Korean titles Physical: Asia, documentary The Echoes of Survivors: Inside Korea’s Tragedies and You and Everything Else as part of the country’s originals slate for 2025.

The mission of the Department of Physical Geography is to be at the forefront of research in Earth Surface Dynamics. Our knowledge and understanding of Earth’s continental and coastal systems ...

Here’s how it works. Japan launched a navigation satellite early Sunday morning (Feb. 2), the nation's first liftoff of 2025. An H3 rocket launched the Michibiki 6 spacecraft from Tanegashima ...