All across Japan are museums and art galleries that showcase works by renowned international and regional artists, while incorporating elements of the area’s history and culture. The Japan Cultural ...

Celebrate the Year of the Horse by visiting Japan’s horse-linked shrines, temples and scenic spots where legends still live.

Eighty years after the lights were plugged into a humming Army generator, the spirit of the “greatest celebration in American ...

With this year marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, there were many events, media features and other ...

Closed off from the world, the little wooded isle of Poveglia in the Venetian Lagoon has a haunting history. It’s also known ...

Japanese Emperor Emeritus Akihito, the father of Emperor Naruhito, turned 92 on Tuesday. The former Emperor was diagnosed this May with silent myocardial ischemia, a condition in which blood flow to ...

There are no documented survivors of Unit 731, the covert department of the imperial Japanese army that conducted lethal ...

Eighty years ago, the world won a great victory in the war against fascism. At the cost of tens of millions of lives, ...

Yet as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the great war, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has ...

Yet as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the great war, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has chosen to move against the tide of history. Speaking before the Diet, she linked ...

Restaurants and grocery stores representing cuisines from across Asia—including Vietnam, Korea, and Nepal—line the street, ...