This multimodal route through the country’s Northern Alps is a great alternative to the similar journey around Mount Fuji — ...

In Japan, bobtail cats are considered good luck and Nagasaki is the place to find them. They are known as “omagari neko (bent ...

Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao ...

Two top Japanese Communists, Kyuichi Tokuda and Yoshio Shiga, occupied adjoining prison cells for 17 years, used to tap messages to each other through the wall. Since they were freed at war’s ...

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A guesthouse in Japan says it is under pressure from local authorities to change a policy asking guests to declare that they have never committed war crimes, following complaints by Israel’s ...

Eventually, it was time to lay down the tracks for "Under The Bridge." According to the 2004 book Fornication: The Red Hot Chili Peppers Story, Rubin felt the song needed a natural progression ...

A hawkish member of Japan's ruling party on Wednesday came under fire for his statement that descriptions at a war memorial rewrote the history of the Himeyuri student corps, many of whom lost their ...

Japan stopped vaccinating children under two years old in 1994 and saw its infant mortality drop by 96% since. Rating: False (About this rating?) In May 2025, a rumor began to spread online that ...

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Nissan is preparing plans to shut two car assembly plants in Japan and considering closing two factories in Mexico, as the Japanese automaker restructures, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Saturday.