“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest ... At this time of anarchy, civil war, and social upheaval, some warrior ...

Source: Ministry of Finance of Japan By The New York Times By River Akira Davis Reporting from Tokyo As Washington and Beijing wage an intensifying trade war, Japan is caught in the middle of the ...

A three-judge panel at Yokohama District Court found Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Krieger liable in a civil suit and ...

Conservative lawmakers decry a change of the surname rule in the Civil Code as an attack on traditional values and tie it to concerns over a looming demographic crisis. They argue that Japan must work ...

This photo taken on April 21, 2025, at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo shows the "masakaki" ritual offering sent by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for its spring festival.

Former Japanese economy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura meets the press after offering prayers at war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo during its three-day spring festival on April 23, 2025.

(Photo courtesy of Kat Burk) Japanese War Brides, a traveling Smithsonian exhibition, explores the lives of the Japanese women who immigrated to America as wives of U.S. military servicemembers ...