Home to less than 10 percent of the population, it’s an outdoor lover’s dream, with cloud-piercing peaks, lakes, dense ...

Spring in Japan is a magical time, with cherry blossoms (sakura) painting the country in shades of pink and white. This ...

Japan is a land of contrasts,where centuries-old traditions blend seamlessly with some of the world’s most advanced ...

This castle, 200 km north of Tokyo, was a battleground in Japan's last civil war in the mid-19th C. Modern warfare did not ...

Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, known as a master of horror films, plans to tackle the samurai genre for the first time ...

Dating back to the 17th century, the Nakasendo runs 332 miles across central Japan, and was once a thoroughfare for Daimyo Lords and their Samurai between Kyoto and what is now Tokyo, (formerly Edo).

In Tokyo, according to the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry, so many Japanese were eating the bean curd waste usually fed to cattle that cows were giving only one-fifth of their usual milk supply.

Trash collectors in samurai costumes took to Tokyo's streets on Wednesday, theatrically wielding garbage tongs and flicking litter left from an evening of Halloween revelry into wicker baskets on ...

The 37th Tokyo International Film Festival got off to a memorably splashy start Monday night with the world premiere of filmmaker Shiraishi Kazuya’s frenetic and wildly bloody samurai action ...

The Tokyo International Film Festival has selected the samurai action thriller 11 Rebels as the opening movie of its upcoming 37th edition. The film is directed by Shiraishi Kazuya from a decades ...