Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who ...

The nonprofit is a community hub with karate classes, Japanese folk dancing lessons, kendo and language courses.

Sanae Takaichi, a fan of Iron Maiden, had an improbable rise to power. Like her mentor, Shinzo Abe, she is expected to lead ...

After eight long years of hard work on her directorial debut, everything is coming up Rachel Michiko Whitney. The journey of ...

On Thursday, 18 pieces of ordnance believed to date to WWII were detonated on land at Kubasu Beach on Miyakojima, an island ...

A fascinating blend of cultural and historical influences, the Japanese archipelago feels a world apart from Tokyo, Kyoto and ...

This new Yoko Ono retrospective is epic but intimate, impossibly earnest but funny and full of irony, without a single wink.

Sanae Takaichi is the first woman chosen to serve as Japan's prime minister. She favors a strong military, a strong economy — ...

Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who died Friday aged 101, was best known for his landmark apology for Japan's World ...

Commemorating a long-lost internment camp for Japanese Americans highlights hidden stories of heroism and persecution. The Honouliuli Internment and POW Camp on the Hawaiian island of Oahu is pictured ...

For most of her life, Sanae Takaichi has loved heavy metal. As Japan’s first female leader, she has many reasons to reach for her sticks ...

On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese empire capitulated after the United States threw atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was the last country of the Axis powers that continued its war, and ...