The Japan-inclined daughter of a Belgian diplomat, Amélie Nothomb has published several books about her upbringing in Asia, ...

How shared backgrounds among policy elites powered the economic rise of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China.

The museum preserves the gnome-like carvings — known as the Zizi Forest Fairies — created by sculptor Akimitsu Tomonaga for ...

Apple has announced that it will be opening an all-new store at the Grand Front shopping complex in Osaka, Japan, on Saturday ...

OSAKA, Japan >> Through various collaborative efforts, traditional Japanese crafts such as washi (Japanese paper), textiles ...

Fatima shared this clip of her sketch, which is a window into the soul, a vivid splash of raw emotion on paper. ''I drew this ...

Japan has introduced new rules on the names parents can give their children with restrictions on the pronunciation of kanji characters—Chinese‐derived characters written in Japanese. The Context ...

To see how Japan pays today, I took an evening trip to Kunitachi. It's a town – Tokyo, which is also a prefecture, made up of many towns – pretty much in the middle of the capital region, with ...

Japanese paper with a thickness of just 0.02 millimeters, making it semitransparent, emerges from a papermaking machine in the village of Hidaka, Kochi Prefecture.

Toto, a top Japanese toilet bowl maker, said last week that users should refrain from wiping their seats with toilet paper, as it risks creating micro scratches on the surface.

Roughly five years ago, Starbucks Japan switched from plastic straws to paper ones, in an effort to be more environmentally friendly. But while this change was made in order to make Mother Nature ...