“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

The country’s objects and ideas, including matcha and emojis, that have had an outsize influence on the world.

In Japan, the simple act of walking has long been connected to working toward enlightenment.

A look at Japan’s love of packaging, from impeccably crafted cardboard to lacquered works of art.

Archaeologists discovered an ancient Buddha statue at a North Korean site, which is about a thousand years old. Researchers ...

The two great men shook the world by their ideas and deeds, and lived their lives for others on this very land, twenty-five ...