What to do if your umbrella is stolen? Show 'em what you got!

Japan in the 1990's suffered one of the greatest financial blowouts in history. In this episode we take a look at the formation and bursting of the great Japanese bubble and the ripple effects that ...

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

The Japanese philosophy 'shikata ga nai', meaning 'it cannot be helped', teaches acceptance of life's uncontrollable events.

A 1,200-year-old ancient capital in Japan is having an astonishing revival and being rebuilt after lost remnants were found in rice paddy fields. The stunning Daigokuden Hall of Heijo Palace ...

The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) is a Partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank conceived in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It was ...

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 ...

going to a Japanese paper magnate for $82.5 million. Painted in the garden of the artist’s physician in June 1890, it was completed just weeks before van Gogh’s suicide by gunshot. The sense ...

Families, loved ones and those affected gathered Tuesday to offer prayers in front of a mental health clinic in Osaka’s Kita Ward, where an arson attack three years ago claimed 26 lives.

Japan ranked 29th for labor productivity among the 38 member countries of the OECD, according a survey by the Japan Productivity Center released Monday. Japan's per-hour productivity in 2023 came ...