Japan formed its first centralized government during the Nara period (710–94) and adopted a legal system called ritsuryo, ...

ON a sunny early November afternoon in the Japanese city of Kanazawa, the alchemy of autumn had already begun transforming the city’s beloved Kenrokuen Garden from an oasis of leafy greens into ...

The Gyoda Municipal Government in eastern Japan's Saitama Prefecture is launching its first-ever rooftop tours to provide ...

Imagine standing on the old wooden Nihonbashi bridge in the commercial heartland of Edo, the ancient Japanese city now known as Tokyo. It is some time around 1750 during the Edo period, the era ...

It’s hard to say what’s cooler about the Japanese shōya house at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens — the centuries-old wood structure that was once the center of a ...

The $10 million job of moving a centuries-old shoya house from Japan to the U.S. was far more complicated than just taking apart a puzzle and putting it back together.

TOKYO — The ancient martial art of Karate made its debut at the Summer Olympics in Japan this week. The sport was added as a nod to the country where it developed 700 years ago.