At issue is not only the future of one of Japan’s most recognizable retail giants, but also the extent to which Tokyo’s economic nationalism will prevent majority foreign ownership of Japanese ...

When Westerners started to arrive in Japan in the mid-nineteenth century, they were full of admiration for the Japanese custom of daily bathing, which they saw as a mark of cleanliness and hygiene.

That's the marketing message of Sanseito, a new right-wing populist party in Japan known for its stance against immigrants and coronavirus measures as well as calls for rewriting the postwar ...

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This episode explores how the Meiji Restoration propelled Japan from a feudal society into a modern imperial power. Through a series of sweeping military, political, and economic reforms, Japan ...

The rise of family-owned conglomerates marks a significant transformation in global business, moving from the periphery to ...

Shinto, once an unwritten tradition rooted in nature, shrines, and ancestral worship, wasn’t always classified as a “religion.” This video traces how Japan’s native spiritual practice was reshaped ...

A Japanese steel giant now owns U.S. Steel thanks to President Donald Trump. Nippon Steel’s $14.9-billion acquisition of U.S. Steel closed on Wednesday, the companies said, confirming an unusual ...

Even today, in the throes of a norm-busting trade war with China, there is talk of some kind of leader-to-leader grand ...

Myanmar’s civil war is unwinnable under the circumstances. Supporting Kachin independence could secure rare earth supplies, ...

Trump has long questioned the value of U.S. membership in NATO, an alliance he’s cast as a drain on American resources.

Jimmy Swaggart, the Louisiana preacher who built one of the largest televangelist ministries in the 1980s before becoming ...