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

What were once signs of military power have become symbols of Japan's idealized peaceful past. 'An exciting history of Japan from the Tokugawa period to the present, as seen through the lens of its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

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

An increasing number of Japanese stocks are trading below book value despite corporate reforms that have attracted investor praise, suggesting managers need a bolder approach to drive shareholder ...

Japan is a popular spot for tourists ... In order to claim the free tickets, passengers must book round-trip international ...