A huge wooden gate, like that of a Shinto shrine, is the landmark of Kanazawa ... line runs through the city on concrete tracks. The film also visits one of Japan's few surviving ancient towns ...

The largest and deadliest earthquake to strike Japan in a dozen years hit ... spread across the country’s west coast. Kanazawa, a Buffalo sister city 75 miles away from the epicenter, avoided ...

Japan’s sidewalk restaurants, known as “yatai,” have almost entirely disappeared—except in Fukuoka, where they’ve undergone a ...

They are known as omagari neko (bent-tail cats) or kagi neko and have their own society of admirers and even a dedicated Shinto shrine. Their tails come in varieties including hook-shaped at the ...

However, the world’s largest city is not located in any of these gigantic countries, but in Japan. Tokyo, the capital of Japan, is the largest city in the world in terms of population.

We start in Nagoya, Japan’s lesser-known fourth-largest city. Often overlooked by tourists, it is easy to reach from the UK with just a single connection in Helsinki, and a great base from which ...

Taking the temperature of summer travelOur shop sells the world. The world doesn't always make it easy. How to be a better salespersonByrd Bergeron and Steven Gould say travel advisors tend to ...

Nagasaki bobtails have their roots in the Dutch East Indies when the city was the only foreign port during Japan’s closed era in the 17th to 19th centuries. They hunted rats to protect shipments ...

A weekly ranking of the most popular songs in Japan combining physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, YouTube and GYAO! video views and karaoke data, compiled by Billboard Japan.

Asia Society Japan welcomes Takehiro Masutomo, author of Run Ri: Tracing the Footsteps of Chinese Elites Escaping to Japan, for a behind the scenes glimpse into this growing wave of immigration.

Twelve-year-old Nobuko Kamei was living with her parents and older sister in Kobe after returning from where she had evacuated to as World War II raged on and drew near the end. On June 5, 1945 ...