Have you ever seen shodo calligraphy performed live before an audience? This summer, at the inaugural national university shodo performance tournament in Osaka, students took shodo out of the quiet ...

I’m a woman in my 40s working in customer service. While I enjoy the work, I find myself thinking about my job even on my days off. I cannot control my own thoughts, which fills me with self-loathing.

Imagn Images via Reuters Mao Shimada of Japan skates in the women’s short program during the 2026 Skate Canada International figure skating competition at Prospera Place in Kelo ...

A group of local residents held a memorial service on Saturday in Kumano, Mie Prefecture, to honor British prisoners of war, known as the Iruka Boys, who died while being forced to work at a local ...

Iranian negotiators held talks in Doha with Qatari mediators on Saturday to discuss paths out of war in the Gulf, a source who was briefed on the negotiations told Reuters, as diplomats try to avert ...

I’m a man in my 70s. Since my mother, who is in her 90s and has dementia, entered a nursing home several years ago, I have been visiting her every day.

North Korea’s state media KCNA reported on Sunday that the country’s defense science research institutes tested a major weapon system.

More than 4 in 10 names flagged as possible noncitizen voters in California by the Trump administration cannot be found on the state’s voter rolls, according to a legal filing Saturday by an immigrant ...

Ishikawa Prefecture’s Noto region is part of an ongoing agreement with Pokémon aiming to promote tourism in the area struck by the 2024 earthquake. The initiative has proven to be a success, with one ...

HANGZHOU — China is focusing on “technology tourism,” an initiative to introduce cutting-edge science and technology to foreign tourists.

Along the Hakusan Shirakawa-go White Road, which connects Hakusan in Ishikawa Prefecture to Shirakawa-go, the UNESCO World Heritage site in Shirakawa Village, Gifu Prefecture, rowan and beech trees ...

As the 2% price stability target has been reached more than 13 years after it was first set by the government and the Bank of Japan, Japan now faces a major turning point in its monetary policy, with ...