According to the Tohoku region’s Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, kokeshi (koh-keh-shee) originated in the late Edo period, which ended in 1868, in the area’s hot-spring villages, where ...

JAPAN – Much of Asia was celebrating the Year of the Horse in the past week. In Japan, which does not mark Chinese New Year, the attention turns to a different animal. There is no cat in the Chinese ...

In Japan, Valentine’s Day on February 14 is a very chocolate-centered celebration, with different categories of choko gifts being given. Tokyo-based department store Matsuya Ginza recently conducted a ...

Kasho Iizuka’s feature casts trans actors to revisit a notorious 1965 trial that made gender reassignment illegal for more than 30 years. He explains why the history remains unfinished The so-called ...

Urayasu City Hall is seen in Chiba Prefecture in this July 2022 file photo. (Mainichi/Naoki Watanabe) URAYASU, Chiba -- The city of Urayasu will make day care free for children aged 2 and younger ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The line formed early in Kapolei where the smell of warm bread drifted into the parking lot. On Valentine’s Day, Brug Bakery is opening its newest Oʻahu shop. The grand opening is ...

This file photo shows the dispersal of cedar pollen. (Mainichi/Yasunori Sato) TOKYO -- As spring approaches and warmer days increase, a challenging period begins for hay fever sufferers, which comes ...

BEIJING – China’s nine-day Chinese New Year holidays kicked off on Feb 15, with Japan dropping out of the 10 most popular overseas destinations for Chinese travellers after Beijing urged its citizens ...

The director and ex-Japanese Red Army militant discusses his new film Escape, about the anarchist fugitive Satoshi Kirishima, the frustrations of radical film-making and progressive politics Last ...

The government will send Parliamentary Vice Minister for the Cabinet Office Naoki Furukawa to this year's annual ceremony for the Takeshima Islands, minister for territorial issues Jiro Akama has said ...

Trading of Japanese government bonds, long considered moribund, is roaring back to life as fears of the country’s debt have sent yields surging. By River Akira Davis Reporting from Tokyo For two ...

Japan collected two more medals on Sunday, Day 10 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games. Freestyle skier Horishima Ikuma won the silver in the men's dual moguls competition. Speed skater ...