A tough week for global equities looked to be heading for a positive end after figures showed US inflation slowed last month.

Pandas have stood for friendship between China and Japan since 1972. But the last two are about to go, and a dispute over ...

Coffee tasting menus full of elaborate preparations and black-tie baristas are all the rage in Tokyo and Kyoto.

Twin pandas at a Tokyo zoo are set to return to China in late January, leaving Japan without a panda for the first time in ...

Thousands of people flocked to Tokyo’s Ueno zoo to have a last glimpse of the popular twin pandas that are set to return to ...

In collaboration with the Seattle Consulate-General of Japan and the King County Library System, local residents learned “Fabulous Furoshiki: A New Twist on an Old Idea” at the Woodinville Library.

Nicknamed “the Babe Ruth of Japan,” the 26-year-old Murakami would be the first power-hitting position player to jump from ...

Thousands of people flocked to Tokyo’s Ueno zoo to have a last glimpse of the popular twin pandas that are set to return to ...

The Japanese word gamaguchi translates literally into English as “frog mouth,” but the language didn’t really need a single, specialized vocabulary word for discussing that part of amphibian anatomy.

For my November wedding, however, I wanted to go the extra mile. I didn't want to reinvent the wheel exactly (I aimed to look ...

A cross between sport, fashion and theater, the Japanese women’s wrestling league Sukeban has exploded onto the scene. We went to see them fight.

Yurina Noguchi, 32, waves her bouquet toward an image of Klaus, her AI partner, displayed on her mobile phone after their ...