Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo.

In some cases, steep, deep decline. Maybe most graphically (and demographically) there's Japan: a country that, since hitting a high of 128 million citizens in 2008, has lost population for 15 ...

By Pico Iyer Illustrations by Ilya Milstein A Japanese sentence is often as mongrel as a Japanese street. While walking through a shopping arcade in Osaka — here a tatami tearoom, there a French ...

TOKYO — Rice is a staple in Japanese culture and cuisine, so much so that the word for “meal” is synonymous with “cooked rice.” But demand for the grain is rapidly outstripping supply ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as Japan’s top trade negotiator traveled to Washington for another round of tariff talks last week, a bipartisan delegation bearing the name of “Japan-China Friendship ...

This one, Kappy, who’s posing in T editor in chief Hanya Yanagihara’s office, was created by the Saitama, Japan-based 3-D illustrator Ryogo Toyoda and modeled on kappa, a menacing Japanese ...

BROOKFIELD — Fans of sushi, hibachi, teriyaki and other Japanese dishes will be happy to learn that a family-owned restaurant called Aki Japanese Cuisine has just opened a new location in ...

Japan has been actively developing electromagnetic railgun technology since 2016, aiming to enhance its defense capabilities against advanced aerial and maritime threats. This initiative is part ...

TOKYO -- Japan and Malaysia are closing in on an agreement to cooperate on the underground storage of carbon dioxide, Nikkei has learned, in a plan that would take the greenhouse gas produced in ...

Japanese superlong government bonds drew a record foreign inflow last month as heightened risk aversion amid U.S. tariff policy burnished the securities’ allure as a haven. Global funds bought a ...

Mint leaves are rich in antioxidants, vitamin A, and vitamin C, which help fight heat-related stress and boost immunity.

Nintendo has said it is seeing overwhelming demand for its upcoming Switch 2 game console in Japan, in a sign the gadget could be on track for the biggest hardware launch in the video game ...