The poignancy of five Japanese ballplayers returning to their home country as Major League stars resonated with the baseball ...

America used to be the archetypal “soft power” country, but sushi, anime, and a different way of life place it in the land of the rising sun for Gen Z.

In the warm glow of the country’s jazz cafés, a subculture of vinyl aficionados is cultivating the kind of shared sensory ...

This year will be the first time the UK's Japanese cultural festival will be held outside London [Hyper Japan] The UK's biggest celebration of Japanese culture will come to Manchester for the first ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Japan Culture Day, also known as Bunka no Hi, is November 3 and this year, the Buffalo History Museum is hosting a celebration. The museum and Friends of the Japanese Garden are ...

It is still possible for a population in decline, even as severely as Japan’s, to recover, but it requires serious cultural reexamination. Japan released a report last month announcing that last year, ...

Located in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Fukamachi and Haru-no-Ogawa Parks, the blue and orange toilets appear like beacons. They can be ...

The inaugural MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN ceremony, the largest music awards in the country, is set to take place in May in Kyoto. Embodying the theme of “Connecting the world, illuminating the future of music ...

On my first morning in Tokyo, a barista in a café near Ueno Station served my coffee with a big smile and two short bows. The cashier was just as kind and patient, though I do not speak Japanese.