After emerging from cloistered isolation in 1865, following more than 200 years of violent harassment by Japan’s insular ...

The rare version of Christianity heading toward extinction - Hidden Christians are dying out, and there is growing certainty ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family have prayed for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II fought on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa 80 years ago ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family have prayed for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II ...

Japanese baseball luminaries and other sporting figures have paid tribute to Yomiuri Giants icon Shigeo Nagashima, who died ...