Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Plaintiffs and their supporters celebrate after a Japanese high court ruled that the country’s refusal to ...

Dec. 13 (UPI) --Japanese law prohibiting same-sex marriage from being officially recognized is unconstitutional, the country's Fukuoka High Court ruled on Friday. The decree marks the third time a ...

No matter the occasion, Japanese women tend to adopt a high-pitched voice in public or when speaking on the telephone. The same can be said of actresses in movies as well as news anchors in Japan.

There are plenty of shopping destinations in Japan. When in Tokyo, visit Ginza for high-end fashion and beauty products, and Harajuku and Shibuya for trendy youth fashion. In Akihabara and Nakano, ...

Other on-screen trendsetters hail from films like Challengers and series such as Squid Game 2. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Elements of the country’s school system, viewed as a microcosm of society and a building block of Japanese identity, can be experienced at a once abandoned junior high school in Kimitsu ...

A Japanese high court has ruled the country's ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional. It is the eighth of nine rulings recently rule in favour of recognising same-sex marriages. Japan's ...

Everything seemed delicious.” The group is considered Japan's best and most innovative high school marching band. Until just several years ago — when the school began to admit boys — the ...

I did not expect any of this,” says the doe-eyed Dylan Bachelet, this year’s runaway Great British Bake Off star who – ...

on Saturday in one of her signature head-turning looks, wearing a pair of high-fashion Croc clogs. She left her legs bare, wearing a pair of socks with her black, pearl-studded clogs, which were ...

Last September, she joined the Japanese brand Uniqlo as creative ... Of course, she isn’t the only esteemed designer with a high-fashion background to join a ubiquitous brand.