Nara's Horyuji Temple is another World Heritage Site. Its central gate, main hall, and five-story pagoda were built around ...

Yushima Seido is a temple whose traditions as a place of study have been handed down to posterity. It is well-known as the birthplace of modern Japanese education. The fifth shogun, Tsunayoshi ...

Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million.

Long time Coachella Valley resident and former Chief of the National Guard Bureau, Lieutenant General Herbert Temple, Jr., passed away on Saturday. He was Chief of the National Guard Bureau from ...

Postal workers in a western Japanese city delivered New Year's greeting cards in a neighborhood near a famous temple on Tuesday, one day before crowds jam the area. It is a time-honored tradition ...

As 2024 nears its end and we look back on the year in entertainment, it was clearly one when Japan-related works loomed large on the global market. It is a diverse group of works. Some were made ...

The art of Japanese temple carpentry hinges on the meticulous handcrafting techniques passed down through generations. Carpenters wielding traditional tools like the chona (hand plane) and nomi ...

The Miyawaki Forest Technique, invented by Japanese botanist and plant ecology expert Professor Akira Miyawaki in the 1970s, is the inspiration for micro-forests worldwide. These diverse ...

Gyeong Hong Jong, a North Korean special forces operative who was killed by Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) operatives in Kursk Oblast, has left behind a diary that is now being gradually ...

Japanese and Chinese serials have also grown in popularity, as seen with Shogun breaking an Emmy record and costume C-dramas like The Double and Love Game in Eastern Fantasy making waves on social ...