Japan is not known for obesity, and it is because their culture promotes eating a fresh, seasonal, homecooked, and ...

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at a Buddhist temple in downtown Tokyo, eagerly stretching their hands to catch the dried ...

With Japan’s first full-colour film, Carmen Comes Home, screening around the UK, we dive into the luminous world of Japanese colour filmmaking in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...

Without its usual crowd of spectators, Kaikyokan’s sunfish essentially started to fall into a deep-sea depression.

How do you perk up a lonely fish? This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real challenge faced by staff at a Japanese aquarium when they noticed their sunfish was ...

The number of foreign workers in Japan reached a new high, underscoring the country’s growing reliance on people from ...