Many visitors enjoyed the final day of a cherry blossom festival featuring an early-blooming variety, Kawazu-zakura, in a ...

The Vatican has sent a letter to a Japanese man acquitted of a 1966 quadruple murder in a retrial, expressing the pope's joy ...

Oregon‘s Mill Ends Park is no longer the smallest in the world. The title now belongs to a park in Nagaizumi Town, Japan.

Mill Ends Park, located in Portland, Oregon, was officially recognized as the world's smallest park in 1971. It was created ...

Mill Ends Park located in Portland, Oregon, was the previous world record holder. Now, Nagaizumi, Shizuoka, Japan holds that ...

SHIZUOKA—Long the top tea-growing prefecture in Japan, Shizuoka has been surpassed by Kagoshima, dropping into second place ...

Japan is home to the world's first park that would not be ideal for a quick stroll.See Also: Van Gogh’s 'Sunflowers' go 3D in ...

A tiny park in Japan has been officially recognized as the world's smallest park, surpassing the previous record held by Mill ...

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Shinichi Uchida said the central bank will continue to raise interest rates to ensure the ...

Kawazu zakura is a variety of cherry blossoms that bloom early. This year, they flowered later than normal, but are now in ...

A tiny park in the town of Nagaizumi in Shizuoka Prefecture has been officially recognized as the smallest park in the world ...

Sy-led banking giant BDO Unibank Inc. and Japan’s Shizuoka Bank Ltd. are strengthening their business alliance to expand ...