For 16 generations, master gardeners in this one family have dedicated their lives to preserving one of the nation's most ...

The trees in Okinawa began blooming in early January, and the flowering season has gradually moved northward along Japan’s ...

The government on April 23 started 2025 operations of both its ordinary and special heatstroke alert systems to warn the ...

The ordinary alert system, operated by the Environment Ministry and the Japan Meteorological Agency, divides the country into ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is ...

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, cherry blossoms have started to bloom 1.2 days earlier per decade since 1953. A recent study found that the peak bloom of Kyoto's cherry blossoms in ...

Japanese weather officials say it will be hotter than usual across the country from May to July. Our site uses cookies and ...

In Japan and the United States alike, cherry blossoms have been blooming earlier each due to the warmer temperatures brought ...

Himawari-8 and -9 are geostationary weather satellites operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). They are successors to JMA’s Multi-functional Transport Satellite (MTSAT) series, offering ...

Omachi City in Nagano Prefecture reported damage from the magnitude 5 earthquake that hit the northern part of the ...