Now that summer has loosened its torrid grip, a trip to this outdoor museum in the western Tokyo suburbs is a perfect way to ...

From the Edo-Tokyo Museum Collection,” is currently touring Japan. We asked the exhibition’s curator ... “During the ...

Dubbed the “Venice of the East” on social media and elsewhere, the city is not in danger of sinking but is working to ...

The Meiji Restoration of 1868 ended the Bakufu period. A bad economy and the 1853 visit by Commodore Perry’s “Black Ships,” ...

Night - Scattered showers with a 79% chance of precipitation. Winds WNW at 6 to 8 mph (9.7 to 12.9 kph). The overnight low will be 66 °F (18.9 °C). Cloudy with a high of 71 °F (21.7 °C) and a ...

throwing Japanese politics into its most uncertain period in years. The Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed Japan for all but four years since 1955, lost more than 50 seats in an election ...

the shift to the PS3 era marked the start of a tough road for many Japanese developers, pushing them into a new world of high-end gaming that was very different from the arcade-style games they had ...

The story follows Kenshin Himura, a former assassin known as the Battosai, who has vowed to never kill again after the chaos of Japan’s Bakumatsu era. Now a wandering swordsman in the Meiji period, ...

Japan's voters are poised to potentially end the era of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) dominance in the upcoming general election. The election, scheduled just days before the U.S. presidential ...

By Meiji's 2026 fiscal year, it wants to generate Y170bn ($1.12bn) in sales outside Japan, which would compare to Y77.3bn in its 2023 financial year. Meiji is aiming for Y60bn of those Y170bn in ...

So goes an anecdote making the rounds in Japanese tech circles. It suggests that Japan is a land of opportunity when it comes to AI. The tale is instructive. Japanese do feel relatively little ...