However, navigating the many unwritten rules and social cues can be challenging for foreign travellers. As our readers named ...

A banker in east Japan has been dismissed for embezzling a total of 55.35 million yen (about $377,000) from customers, using ...

An image of former Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi bowing his head at the Yasukuni shrine to Japan's war dead has ...

One avenue few designers have explored is the idea of ‘bowing’ a synth engine, in the manner you would stringed instruments ...

In Kyoto, several dojos offer authentic samurai training sessions led by descendants or practitioners of samurai techniques.

HER white-gloved, waistcoated uniform impeccable, 22-year-old Hazuki Okuno boards a bullet train replica to rehearse the ...

"He stands there with his hands in his pocket, legs apart, not even directly looking at the Japanese leader." It continued, "It is as if he is treating [Koizumi] like a servant." The image shows ...

A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, closing a nearly six ...

Japan's Parliament has elected Shigeru Ishiba, the new leader of the ruling liberal Democratic Party (LDP), as the country's ...

Today, the nation’s much-loved bullet train, known as Shinkansen, celebrates its 60th birthday. Timelessly sleek, clean, ...

Divine will or not, Mr Ishiba triumphed on his fifth attempt last week, and on October 1st he became Japan’s prime minister. His selection does not herald a drastic change of trajectory in Japan’s ...