During the latter half of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, screens depicting world maps (sekai-zu byobu), oftentimes with gold surrounds or exotic imagery, became vogue. The present ...

The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, ...

The world's first wooden satellite has been launched into space, in a step toward sustainable space exploration. The project by scientists at Kyoto University is intended to be a potential ...

This week, Japan announced that a U.S. aircraft carrier will arrive at its home port near Tokyo in mid-to-late November for ...

The Liberal Democratic Party, which has been in power almost continuously since 1955, failed to secure an absolute majority ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday unveiled a $65 billion plan to boost the country's chip and artificial intelligence industries via subsidies and other financial incentives.

(Courtesy: NASA) Researchers in Japan have launched the world’s first wooden satellite to test the feasibility of using timber in space. Dubbed LignoSat2, the small “cubesat” was developed by Kyoto ...

Japan's female lawmakers struggle to close gender gap Election ... has promised to narrow one of the widest gender gaps among ...

The World Series trophy is headed to Los Angeles, but the party is extending all the way to Japan. People milled around local ...

The TCW Group, a leading global asset management firm, announced today the appointment of David Kim as Managing Director and Head of TCW Japan ... include many of the world’s largest corporate ...

The Bank of Japan maintained ultra-low interest rates on Thursday but said risks around the U.S. economy were somewhat subsiding, signaling that conditions are falling into place to raise interest ...

“I think the reason the Dodgers acquired Ohtani and (pitcher Yoshinobu) Yamamoto was to win the World Series. So I would like to see them winning it.” Television ratings in Japan have set ...