In some countries parents have to choose from a list of approved baby names while others ban names such as Lucifer, Saint, ...

While various recipes for custard and chocolate bars circulated in regional cookbooks and recipes for decades, a Vancouver Sun columnist wrote about a "Nanaimo bar" in 1953, and the city's way of ...

(Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba denied talk on Wednesday that he had decided to quit after a source and ...

A wiser, stronger strategy would be to reserve a presidential visit to China for when Beijing demonstrates genuine reform.

Pictures of Belonging at the Smithsonian American Art Museum spotlights Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, three ...

Tokyo’s biggest filmmaker, Toho, is looking to expand its prehistoric “atomic-breathing” creature into games and attractions ...

Ginza Diamond Shiraishi Hong Kong has continued to strengthen its position in the city’s luxury bridal jewelry sector, ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

In the heart of Japanese culture, bow ( ojigi) is a symbol that goes well beyond the gesture itself: it tells a civilization.

In an era of supersized pickups and SUVs, Kei cars and trucks bring a (very) little piece of Japan to the United States. Getting one on the road can be complicated.

On this day in 1993, Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol. And his reason for doing so makes a lot of sense.

The Japanese government is cracking down on unique children’s names – here’s what it means Government bans unconventional kanji pronunciations to dissuade parents from giving children quirky ...