Ms. Yamazaki is a documentary filmmaker. What makes Japanese people distinctively Japanese? For me, the key lies in what we are taught during our elementary school years. Children as young as 6 ...

10 revealing facts about Japanese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Japanese with audio.

TOKYO, Japan — Japanese tipples sake and shochu — and the knowledge and skills honed over centuries to make them — have been added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. AFP looks at how sake, ...

Singaporeans love Japanese cuisine, and that has led to Japanese restaurants of every shape and form sprouting up across the country. We have all-you-can-eat buffets, kaiten sushi chains, affordable ...

During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century. When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide ...