I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

A new building inspired by an ancient Japan palace was recently completed here at Manyo Botanical Garden on the grounds of ...

Otherscape, shiny new technology collides with ancient magic. But don't worry, we've made just the guy to sort it all out.

A sunken ‘pyramid’ located near Taiwan has researchers rethinking everything they know about ancient civilizations.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is forming a team to forge a tariff deal with U.S. President Donald Trump after the two spoke by phone on Monday, following one of the worst days for Tokyo stocks in ...

Gearoid Reidy is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Japan and the Koreas. He previously led the breaking news team in North Asia, and was the Tokyo deputy bureau chief. Japan’s Prime ...

But did you know that long before the modern wonders were given the titles of the 'wonders of the world', there was a list of seven iconic structures from ancient times? These ancient wonders were ...

Seven Samurai is an epic samurai action movie directed by none other than Akira Kurosawa. It was released in 1954 and was the most expensive movie ever made in Japan at the time. It is also highly ...

When researchers unearthed a woman in 1998 belonging to the now-extinct Jōmon people of ancient Japan, DNA analysis wasn’t quite advanced enough to put this discovery to full use. Over two decades ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...