Japanese-American musician Mei Semones on her debut album 'Animaru' and her rare, effortless blend of the two languages in her songwriting.

Google recently announced a collection of three “bite-sized learning experiments” built using its Gemini AI. The experiments are publicly available, free to use, work in a web browser, and currently ...

Okinawa’s prefectural government lodged formal protests with Japanese and U.S. authorities following a fourth case of sexual ...

Two seasoned trip planners on how to best tour the Golden Route through five cities, including Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka.

A U.S. bomber’s emergency landing that shut down a shared runway and canceled commercial flights in northeastern Japan has ...

An Israeli tourist was asked to sign a declaration denying involvement in war crimes when checking into a guesthouse in Kyoto ...

A new exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art showcases the longtime cultural meaning in the practice of chanoyu ...

You’ve got your JR Pass, your hotel booked, and you’ve practiced “arigatou” in the mirror. But Japan is more than sushi and ...

Officials in the United States are urging Japan and South Korea to make a formal commitment within the next few weeks to a ...

The undersigned Japan-based organizations are writing to call on the Japanese government to protect the International Criminal Court (ICC) from ongoing efforts to undermine its essential global ...

Saito was entrusted with the letter during a meeting with Ishiba at the Prime Minister’s Office on Monday. “I would like to have frank discussions from a perspective different from that of the ...