Japan has spent decades making its buildings more resilient to earthquakes. Similar changes could be difficult for the US to implement.

Don’t expect raucous party scenes or over-the-top après-ski. In Japan, it’s all about the snow. Here’s a primer on where to go, stay and eat. By Finn-Olaf Jones Unlike the high jinks and ...

Creation legends and folk tales swirl like snow and leaves across the protected landscapes of Japan. This selection of four ...

Japan’s nuclear history presents an opportunity to lead regional safety and disaster preparedness in East Asia ...

The city of Kyoto is known as Japan's cultural and spiritual capital. It's for good reason: Kyoto has hundreds of Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, some of which are associated with the country's ...

Playwright Keiko Green's "Empty Ride" follows the story of a woman who returns home to a small town in Japan, after the 2011 ...

A gas explosion at a shopping mall in Taiwan on Thursday killed at least five people and injured several others, according to ...

Of that number, Japanese nationals and those who had obtained permanent resident status through marriage and other circumstances accounted for about 47,000, more than double the estimate of 10,000 ...

Dashcam Footage Captures Deadly Shopping Mall Explosion in Taiwan Windows and walls were blown out by the blast at the building in Taichung, the island’s second-largest city. Advertisement 0:32 1:26 0 ...

The Japanese broadcaster was criticised for using AI-generated subtitles that referred to disputed islands as Diaoyu Islands ...

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While in Japan these mysterious ancestral monuments are off-limits to the general public, scientists are able to study them a ...