The technical term for the event is “coupling,” but it’s known colloquially as the “Shinkansen kiss.” For Japanese rail fans, ...

Tomoyuki Sugano makes his Camden Yards debut Friday with a large fanbase in Tokyo eager to see him carry over his success ...

Half the fun of going to Japan is shopping for all the things to bring home for yourself to enjoy and to spoil all your ...

Asahi Super Dry, the premium Japanese beer popping up in Asian restaurants and a growing number of pubs across Europe, has ...

The Australia Pavilion at Expo 2025 opens this weekend. How does it compare with an earlier iteration, Expo 70's space age ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has visited Iwo Jima to pay tribute to Japanese and Americans who died on the island in one of World ...

A postwar low of 514,000 marriages were registered in Japan in 2021 ... More than a quarter of people in their 30s--25.4 percent of women and 26.5 percent of men--said in a survey that they ...

Katsuo-ji offers visitors two different types of Darumas: the Kachi-Daruma, the classic doll known as “the winning Daruma” ...

Forty-seven people, mostly foreign nationals, were injured Saturday after one tour bus rear-ended another while the two vehicles were traveling together on an expressway in western Tokyo, police said.

TOKYO -- Japanese people have the lowest satisfaction and expectations for "quality of life" among 30 countries, while just 60% are happy, a global survey has shown. Ipsos, a global polling ...

In hope of avoiding punishing U.S. tariffs, Vietnam is prepared to crack down on Chinese goods being shipped to the United States via its territory and will tighten controls on sensitive exports ...