By now, if you’ve spent any time at all on social media platforms researching Japan trips, you’ve probably seen your feed ...

Japan's imperial family honored the war dead in Okinawa on Wednesday, where the last major battle of World War II occurred 80 ...

I am smitten with Tokyo's eclectic mix of modern cosmopolitanism and old world Japan,' confesses Dinesh Raheja.

In feudal Japan, the Onna-Bugeisha were fierce female warriors who defied gender norms to fight alongside samurai. Trained in ...

Walk Japan’s five-day Nakasendo Way: The Kiso Road walk costs 256,000 yen (about $2642) a person twin share, and includes all ...

Japan was isolated from the outside world due to years of internal conflict and fear of colonization by European powers. When Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Edo Bay in 1853, he changed the course ...

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This was the beginning of Japan’s first long-distance power transmission system. In the following year, the plant started to send electricity to other parts of Tokyo: Kanda, Nihonbashi, Asakusa, ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...