The Google Maps’ view of what Japan calls Takeshima, South Korea calls Dokdo and Google calls Liancourt Rocks. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member ...

Tokyo (AFP) – Japan has asked local authorities and state-run universities not to post Google maps on their websites because some of them use non-Japanese names for disputed islands, reports said ...

Google has refined Google Maps in Japan to show make navigation easier in the country, where most roads don’t have names. The new design seemingly brings the Japanese characters more to the forefront ...

Japan dominates Google Maps Transit Trends 2025, with 9 of the world’s 10 most-searched stations located across Tokyo, Osaka, ...

This month, Associate Editor Mariella Moon humblebrags about her vacation to Japan. But that's not what she's going to discuss. Hailing from a country where Google Maps is lacking in detail (and metro ...

The city of Odate pitched the idea to Google in the spirit of the Lunar Year of the Dog. Youtube It may not be long before Google Maps can be used as a virtual reality exploration tool to visit places ...

As if most people weren't already reliant on Google Maps to get us where we need to go, the company is giving users an adorable reason to peruse the world via street view: Enter "pup view" in Japan.

A major, 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean near Japan on Monday, according to the United States ...

Many decades before satellites even existed, a Japanese cartographer named Hatsusaburo Yoshida was drawing cities as though he was floating thousands of feet above them. His vivid, colorful drawings ...

I've wanted to go to Japan for ages, but the prospect of navigating such an extensive and complex train system was daunting -- especially since I'm the type who gets lost even going to places I've ...