Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family waved from a balcony window to throngs of New Year’s well-wishers, some shouting, ...

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The Americas, Australasia, Asia, Europe and Africa have already been marking the arrival of the new year with fireworks and ...

The annual New Year tuna auction is one of Japan’s most iconic culinary traditions. Winning the first auction of the year is ...

The U-turn rush of people who spent the New Year holidays in their hometowns or overseas began on Saturday with bullet trains ...

A bluefin tuna was sold for $1,316,835 (207 million yen) on Sunday (January 5), marking the second-highest bid at Tokyo's ...

The Pacific island nation of Kiribati was the first country to ring in 2025, its 133,500 citizens celebrating the new year at ...

Millions of Japanese people will return to their home towns to be with their families, visit neighborhood shrines on Tuesday ...

The return rush of people who spent the year-end and New Year holidays in their hometowns and other travel destinations has ...

"The first tuna is something meant to bring in good fortune," Onodera official Shinji Nagao told reporters after the auction.

The sold bluefin tuna fish, roughly the size of a motorbike, is the second highest price ever paid at an annual prestigious ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito said he is praying for the happiness of people in Japan and the world in his first New Year's ...