Japan is the ... rundown of Japan’s history. If you want to learn more about Japanese history, Isaac Meyer has a fantastic podcast on the topic, with new episodes each week.

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 ...

Nagasaki has a unique foreign history, unlike anywhere else in Japan. It was discovered by the Portuguese in 1543; some 20 years later ... Today, Jews from every part of the globe are scattered ...

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 ...

Christopher Harding opens his comprehensive new history of ... monsters of hell, Japan has neurotically struggled to cope with the demon of "modernity" over the past 150 years.

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 ...