By RYO YAMAGISHI/ Staff Writer
December 18, 2025 at 17:16 JST
Visitors snap photos of female giant panda Lei Lei, who is scheduled to return to China in late January, at the Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Dec. 16. (Tatsuo Kanai)
Hordes of fans are flocking to Ueno Zoo in Tokyo’s Taito Ward to bid farewell to twin giant pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, who will leave Japan in late January. [Read More]
A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.
A series based on diplomatic documents declassified by Japan’s Foreign Ministry
Here is a collection of first-hand accounts by “hibakusha” atomic bomb survivors.
Cooking experts, chefs and others involved in the field of food introduce their special recipes intertwined with their paths in life.
A series about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II
