Pilgrimages have been part of Japanese culture for over a thousand years. The UNESCO-listed Kumano Kodo is legendary among ...

Pilgrimages have been part of Japanese culture for over a thousand years. The UNESCO-listed Kumano Kodo is legendary among ...

ISOxo and Knock2’s joint explosion over the past few years gives us a feeling parallel to that of a proud parent, and in 2024 ...

Following a successful debut at Miami Art Week 2024, artist and architectural designer Evan Bobo donated his interactive sculpture "EARTHBALLS" to the Center for Great Apes in Wauchula, Florida. The ...

In Japan, the end of the year is a time when many people visit shrines to give thanks for the past year and pray ...

The US government locked up nearly 126,000 Japanese Americans from 1942 to 1945, but never kept comprehensive records of all ...

He bought along his “goshuincho” book to collect “goshuin” seal stamps. When he visited Shipporyuji ... Koken, in fluent Japanese. The retiree was impressed, wondering how much practice ...

President Joe Biden said Friday he is blocking a $14.3 billion acquisition of US Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel, marking a significant use of executive authority in the closing days of his ...

Atomic bomb survivors from Japan are in Norway ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony. They handed out paper cranes to Norwegian politicians outside the parliament building in Oslo ...

For the uninitiated, sorting one's rubbish can be a convoluted process in Japan - a country that boasts one of the world's strictest waste disposal rules. But in the city of Fukushima, things are ...

Suddenly, over the mild cacophony of various feeder birds out back, I heard the faint guttural rattling of sandhill cranes. In a flash, I shot out into the backyard to see a flock of 33 of the ...

The depreciation of the Japanese yen has made the country a far ... of a luxury have now become more accessible,” says Peter Crane, the global product director of Wendy Wu Tours.