I took Japan's famous bullet train Shinkansen for the first time. My trip from Osaka to Tokyo was quick with comfy seats, but ...

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In 1911, 13-year-old Juhei Kono arrived in Tacoma from Japan. His memoir is the inspiration for "Voyages," a new album from ...

Visitors looking for the "real Japan" may find it on a new long trail two hours from Tokyo that shows off the country's ...

Agatha Christie is a master of murder mysteries, making her one of the greatest authors ever. Here are her best books (which ...

The Japanese writer’s short-story collection “No One Knows” shows why he was the master of melancholy.

Japan is getting its first manga reader for the Nintendo Switch, but it's not clear if it will come to other markets ...

‘Don’t worry about swimwear, you have to be naked for the Onsen hot spring’. And with that, my ‘off the beaten track’ tour ...