Arashiyama is a scenic district on the western outskirts of Kyoto, Japan, known for its natural beauty, historic sites, and ...

For imperial loyalists of the late Edo Period, the experiences of Emperor Go-Daigo from five centuries past were an ...

On September 18, 1931, the explosion of the Japanese-owned railway track near the city of Mukden, Manchuria in northeastern ...

The upcoming visit of Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus to Japan later this month carries great symbolic and strategic ...

The government of Japan announced that Victor J. Dzau, president of the National Academy of Medicine, was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, for his contributions to the ...

It was here, in 1868, that the last shogun, Yoshinobu Tokugawa, returned political power to Emperor Meiji, ending the nearly 700-year shogunate. Overnight, it seemed, Japan was open to the world ...