NAHA—The exterior of Shuri-jo Castle's main hall stands reborn once more with reconstruction complete and reporters visiting ...

NAGASAKI--Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki called for an immediate ceasefire in military conflicts around the world during a ...

This sounds unusual: 10 cylindrical chambers have been built on a former rice terrace in the depths of the Kii Peninsula.

Fisherman Motoharu Kase’s three children were playing in the garden of their home in Rausu, eastern Hokkaido, oblivious to ...

The Velvet House, a unique cafe here, is drawing visitors from all over Japan with its slogan “a queer feminist cafe for all.

A small manufacturer of Japanese paper here has won a global following by producing what is reputed to be the world’s ...

This is part of a series on hibakusha who responded to a survey by The Asahi Shimbun, The Chugoku Shimbun and The Nagasaki ...

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office has reversed its previous decision to refrain from persecuting an aide of Koichi ...

The town of Shari is forever associated with the Shiretoko Peninsula, designated as a World Natural Heritage site. But to a ...

In the fall of 1945, an American priest named George Zabelka found himself lost in thought as he wandered through the ...

Declassified U.S. documents show that Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi agreed in the late 1950s to allow the United States to ...

NAGASAKI--Many of the victims of this city’s atomic bombing initially found solace in the thought their deaths would be a ...