For more than a millennium, Japanese people have used these plaques ... (These souvenirs from around the world can be symbols of hope in hard times.) The coronavirus pandemic is just the latest ...

Rumors that Emperor Hirohito would soon step down from the throne were freely aired last week in the Japanese press. Said an Imperial Household spokesman: the stories were nonsense. They were not ...

But this is where things get interesting: Of late, a particular type of wood, the finicky Japanese oak tree known as mizunara, has become the flavor of the month, so to speak. And this time ...

In Nagano province, the black silhouette of Matsumoto Castle stands out against the snowy horizon of the Japanese Alps. This 16th-century monument, one of the last twelve authentic Japanese ...

These days when people think of Japanese castles, it is the image of the tenshu that rises most prominently in their minds; this was originally a symbol of the authority held by Nobunaga ...

Japan yesterday chose the kanji character for war as the symbol for 2022 after a year marked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. The ...

TOKYO, March 16 (Reuters) - Nearly everything about South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's first summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo will be scrutinised for signs of warmer ...