An Osaka Metropolitan University researcher has found that there are differences in the content of newspaper articles from ...

In the picture book, the lion tells Mr. Barbar that his mane is tangled and he is in trouble. Untangle is "hodoku" in Japanese. Chokichoki-- This is an onomatopoeia used when cutting something ...

Mokumoku-- This is an onomatopoeic word mainly used with smoke ("kemuri" in Japanese) to describe rising smoke. In the picture book, when the tanuki transforms, smoke is emitted, and that is where ...

But the trio whose authentic life stories she tells in her spare, grave and yet oddly debonair book, were bright, courageous women possessed of enough tragic dignity to become enshrined in Japan ...

However, books are no longer part of the norm for most people. More than 60 percent of Japanese do not read a single book over the course of a month, according to the “public opinion survey on ...

Mount Fuji, the tallest peak in Japan with a height of 3,776 meters (12,389 feet), is an active stratovolcano that last ...

Then, the percentage of respondents who did not read even one book per month was 46.1%. A decade later, in 2018, that figure had risen very slightly to 47.3%. Then the six years that followed saw what ...

Known as the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan's civilization dates as far back as 30,000 years. Today, the archipelago seamlessly blends its rich history with its ultra-modern present. And while its ...

Godzilla was born in the era of Japan's post-war grief, but the enormous monstrosity has come a long way since then.

“There’s a deeper meaning behind the daily lives of what these Japanese immigrants went through,” she says. “There’s a deeper message that my dad was actually trying to convey.” The ...