For both adults and children, there's nothing more uplifting than walking into your room to find a towel folded into the ...

Filmmakers Shotaro Kitada and Hoji Tsuchiya worked collaboratively to create a music video for saxophonist Tamoaki Baba's ...

Yields on super-long Japanese government bonds (JGBs) fell sharply on Tuesday after Reuters reported the country's finance ...

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Kirigami is a traditional Japanese art form that entails cutting and folding paper to produce complex three-dimensional (3D) ...

JDM: Japanese Drift Master is an ambitious and sincere ode to Japanese drift culture, but right now it feels like an ...

Japanese government bonds edged up slightly on Friday, clawing back ground after a brutal week that saw yields on long-term ...

Takabe Shrine in the city of Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture, is the only shrine in Japan dedicated to the god of cooking. On May 17, a "knife ceremony" ･･･ ...

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My first prototypes were rough. Inspired by Japanese paper lanterns, the Haju Lamp was my first creation. It took seven iterations before I was happy with it. Now, it takes me two or three tries ...

Japanese carmaker Nissan has said it will cut another 11,000 jobs globally and shut seven factories as it shakes up the business in the face of weak sales. Falling sales in China and heavy ...