Japanese startup ispace vowed its upcoming second unmanned Moon mission will be a success, saying Thursday that it learned ...

Japanese wine culture is relatively new compared to the French, but there are a few similarities as well. Here's how the two ...

Oshogatsu no Maki," written by Kozaburo Arashiyama and illustrated by Mizumaru Anzai (Published by Fukuinkan Shoten Pub･･･ ...

SAPPORO, Japan -- Nestled along a picturesque canal in Otaru, a historic port town in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, is a building with weathered brick walls and green-framed windows ...

Woongjin ThinkBig, a South Korea-based company, has launched a new platform called "Booxtory” that digitizes books in real ...

Amid the baseball games, art galleries and temples, Kyushu island’s largest city has a street food and nightlife culture ...

The world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Tomiko Itooka.

Italian missionary Giovanni Battista Sidotti (1668-1714) landed on southwestern Japan's island of Yakushima in 1708, when the ...

This festival said hello to the new year on Sunday and looked forward to celebrating the Lunar New Year, Year of the Snake, ...

Crabs caught in Abashiri, also in Hokkaido, made the drink taste astringent, so Hatakeyama sought advice from a Japanese chef on how to prepare crab stock. The craft brewer says his dream is to ...

By Emily Eakin His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote. Here are the year ...

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