A new exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art showcases the longtime cultural meaning in the practice of chanoyu ...

How much fans spend on their oshi depends. According to a recent survey by Japanese marketing company CDG and Oshicoco, an ...

Japan's falling population is owed, in part, to a spike in the success of women in the workforce. A greater percentage of ...

The country’s objects and ideas, including matcha and emojis, that have had an outsize influence on the world.

From Hello Kitty to Pikachu, the country changed what the world considers adorable. But do these characters represent joy — ...

It’s that we’re too loud. “Japanese people don’t speak very loudly,” she says. The language is flat, without the high and low exclamations of a language like Italian. “We are not used ...

Authorities in Japan’s Nagano prefecture are on high alert after a bear attacked three people in Iyama, leaving two seriously injured. The animal entered residential properties, broke through ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The roof of an iconic nightclub in the Dominican capital collapsed early Tuesday during a merengue concert attended by politicians, athletes and others, ...

A Japanese research team led by Tohoku University ... active among those conceived during the colder months and that such people tended to have lower body mass index scores and less visceral ...

Enter Japan’s clever solution ... The yellow wristbands are for the people who are not quite ready to talk about your hopes, dreams, or questionable life choices, but still want to engage ...

The Japanese government has issued an urgent warning ... 30cm or deeper will cover roughly 444 square miles. Almost 300,000 people would be killed - including 215,000 killed by tsunami waves ...