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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A Japanese man who gives talks on the experiences of atomic bomb survivors has shown people in Norway how to fold paper cranes, in an effort to spread hope for peace and the abolition of nuclear ...

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 ...

OKAYA, Nagano Prefecture--Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi ... also helping to narrow the gender gap. At Koten, a crane lifts hundreds of kilograms (pounds) of steamed ...

Parliament on Tuesday enacted the government's ¥13.9 trillion ($90 billion) supplementary budget for fiscal 2024 to finance the first comprehensive economic policy package under Prime Minister ...