Rice prices in Japan have continued to rise for 15 consecutive weeks despite the release of crops stockpiled by the ...

The flowering plants were introduced to Japan almost 800 years ago in the Nara period, when envoys brought seeds over from China to use in medicine. Since then they have been embraced by people ...

during the Nara Period (710-784) when Nara was the capital of Japan, only to be destroyed later in a fire and a war. The existing hall, which rises to a height of about 15 meters, was rebuilt in ...

NARA--Researchers ... site in Japan. Complex patterns are inscribed on the back and experts praise the mirror as “a masterpiece of bronze artifact from the Kofun Period,” which lasted from ...