In 1859, when Japan reopened its doors after more than two centuries of isolation, goods flowed in and out of newly expanded ports. At the time, raw silk became the country's largest export ...

Gunma Prefecture—Workers began tearing down a memorial for wartime Korean laborers at a prefectural park here amid criticism that its removal would encourage attempts to whitewash Japan’s past ...

While the first drive-through McDonald's in Japan was set up in Tokyo in 1977, a cleaner specially for drivers is said to have opened in Gunma as early as around 1990. According to the findings of ...

We journey from Gunma Pref., northwest of Tokyo ... a mirrored shaft that reflects the gorge outside. Admire carvings by Japan's Michelangelo at a 500-year-old Buddhist temple.