The Japanese icon, celebrating her golden jubilee, is emblematic of a global craze for child-like things that has grown in troubled times. Most have to wait until their centenary to receive ...

Highlighting the health benefits of this vibrant tuber in his Netflix series, "Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones," Dan ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese trading house Itochu on Wednesday posted 438.4 billion yen ($2.9 billion) in net profit for the ...

November is just a few days away, but Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji remains snowless, marking the latest date without a snowcap ...

Melania's thoughts came less than a month before Donald Trump declared victory in the US presidential race for the second ...

Japanese-produced whisky, nihonshu (sake), and beer are popular around the world. But one bar in Tokyo has been trying to reintroduce to locals and visitors alike a taste of doburoku, one of the ...

As Hello Kitty's commercial success expanded beyond Asia, so did her personal profile. By the late 1970s, Sanrio revealed the ...

The UN Security Council met on Monday to confront North Korea on its new ICBM launch, to which Pyongyang said it would ...

Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s fourth largest economy into a rare period of political uncertainty.

Food and art vendors, along with nonprofits, highlighted different aspects of Japanese culture and community. The event also featured traditional Japanese music and martial arts performances ...