Traveler and author Pico Iyer explains what makes Japan so unique and why he’s made it his home. Social and medical ...

New figures ... a Better Aging Society (WABAS), where she eventually rose to become secretary general, Arai has a firm understanding of the challenges facing older people in Japan's fast-paced ...

The sosaku hanga movement, now explored in an exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art, was a showcase for new ...

The Japanese did go to work, but MacArthur rejected their efforts in early February 1946 as "nothing more than a rewording of the old ... people had voted overwhelmingly for candidates who backed ...

Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite ...

Older black-and-white photos do not show Japanese people posing with the famous sign. Several stories exist to explain how the gesture gained popularity in Japanese society. Representatives of ...

Japanese people are indeed leaving their homeland, but because same-sex marriage has not been legalized. A 31-year-old man who goes ... saying it would “change society.” However, a nationwide ...

It was a warm summer afternoon at Japan Society ... out new ways of attracting audiences, new ways of expressing the abundance of Japan to an American audience--and helping people understand ...

Japan is estimated to have had fewer than 800,000 births last year, down from more than two million a year in the 1970s Japan's prime minister says his country is on the brink of not being able to ...

While sake plays a significant role in Japanese society ... new tab on Wednesday. Sign up here. The driver who rammed his car into a crowd in southern China's Zhuhai city, killing at least 35 ...