Boston University Japanese professor Zenryu Shirakawa died the weekend of Dec. 10 in his home after students noted his absence from class the following Monday morning. He was 63. Shirakawa, who lived ...

His controversial opinions have made him popular with Japan's youth, per The New York Times. Yusuke Narita now has a large social media following and even appeared in an energy drink advert. A Yale ...

A professor and three students studying abroad in Kyoto, Japan, are safe after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake Friday triggered a tsunami that hit Japan's northeastern coast. While the students studying ...

Boston University Japanese professor Zenryu Shirakawa was discovered to have died this weekend in his home after students noted his absence from class Monday morning. He was 63. Shirakawa, who lived ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- If you've ever seen food on TV that you wish you could taste, now you can. A professor at Meiji University in Japan has come up with a television that dispenses flavors on the screen.

Note to editor: A 300-dpi image of the author is available at http://www.rit.edu/~930www/pics/Joseph%20Henning.jpg Rochester Institute of Technology professor Joseph ...

When Laurel Rasplica Rodd began studying Japanese language and culture, she was one of only about 7,000 students nationwide. Today, the United States has an estimated 200,000. During the five decades ...