Japan has a notorious earthquake history. About 1,500 earthquakes strike the island nation every year. Minor tremors occur on a nearly daily basis. Deadly quakes are a tragic part of the nation's ...

The British diplomat Sir Rutherford Alcock noted “a great love of order and cleanliness” in his “Narrative of a Three Years Residence in Japan,” from 1863, and, a few years later ...

Every 20 years, locals tear down the ... called Shikinen Sengo. Japan for Sustainability’s Junko Edahiro describes the history of the ceremony at length and reports on the upcoming festivities ...

a village in mountainous central Japan, where she will join a long but dwindling line of children who have performed the stylized dramas of Kabuki. Every year, the students spend months preparing ...