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

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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 ...

Jon Klassen, a Caldecott medalist, is the author-illustrator of the picture books “I Want My Hat Back,” “This Is Not My Hat” ...

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

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

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

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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

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

By Linda Holmes Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has ...

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 ...