The massive underground reservoir in Japan can holds 670,000 cubic meters of water, safeguarding Tokyo from typhoons and extreme rainfall.

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was born in Japan on the brink of a national transformation. The Edo Period, characterized by the military ... But 200 years on, the government’s staunch policies, ...

It was part of a tightly controlled ritual, likely reserved for a select few, reinforcing the social hierarchy,” University of Florida anthropological archeologist and study co-author Daniel ...

Airi Uchino speaks in Nakano Ward, Tokyo, on April 16, about the time when she ran for the governor of Tokyo, while watching one of her campaign broadcasts that spread on social media. The Yomiuri ...

As evidence that at least some Japanese were still taking this Edo-era balderdash seriously as late as 1966 ... Then in 1967 the number of births rebounded to 1.94 million. As Japan's birthrate has ...

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the history of Japan ... video on the Edo Japan’s social order and the bakuhan system, as we deduce what the feudal structure of ...

A survey in Japan found that the most frequently used social media platforms were Line and YouTube, which were both considerably ahead of X and Instagram. People of all ages are glued to their ...

A man arrested for allegedly killing a high school girl in Saitama Prefecture has admitted to the crime, police sources said Wednesday. The suspect, Hiroyuki Taniuchi, 25, was quoted as saying ...

From the Edo period to modern-day Japan, the postwar era to the seventies ... In the second, two girls from different social classes attend high school together in the Meiji era and communicate ...