The best places to stay, eat, shop and visit across the country, according to Japanese artists, designers and chefs.

The 700-year-old scroll by renowned calligrapher Rao Jie fetched over $32 million after a heated bidding battle at Sotheby’s.

A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered the state to pay 110,000 yen in damages for the illegal restraint of a Peruvian man of Japanese descent while he was detained at an immigration facility in Osaka ...

(Mainichi/Takehiko Onishi) The spate of high court rulings in Japan that homosexual individuals being disallowed from having their partnerships legally recognized constitutes a human rights ...

TOKYO: The Emperor and Empress have begun their “memorial trips” to pay their respects to the war dead in various parts of Japan ... nature of peace. The Imperial couple has visited Iwoto ...

Teramoto’s father, Yasuo, who belonged to a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army, died on the island. His mother raised five children, including Teramoto, after the end of the war. “I believe the ...

Part of the group’s theology, though, was rooted in ancient Buddhist beliefs that had shaped mainstream Japanese society during the Kamakura ... Warrior clans and civil war challenged an imperial ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed Donald Trump to use a 1798 law that historically has been employed only in wartime to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members as part of the Republican ...

The Battle of Iwojima lasted about a month after U.S. forces landed in February 1945, with an estimated 21,900 Japanese and 7,000 U.S. soldiers killed. Dressed in black, the imperial couple visited ...

TOKYO, April 7 — The Unification Church said today it had appealed a Japanese court’s decision to strip the sect of official recognition, in the wake of the assassination of ex-premier Shinzo Abe. The ...

The Emperor and Empress paid tribute on Monday to the war dead on Iwoto Island, the site of an intense battle between Japanese and U.S. forces near the end of World War II. The Imperial couple made a ...