Kōtoku-in, selected by Travel + Leisure as one of Japan’s most stunning temples, is one of the biggest tourist draws in town, thanks to its 36-foot-tall bronze statue of Amitābha Buddha from the 13th ...

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Jurrolia Powell is a registered nurse at the Bustamante Hospital for Children and the youngest sister of the four siblings.

The book, which features introductions by Halloween and The Thing directing legend John Carpenter and recurring Godzilla ...

TOKYO: Three drones were detected in a Japanese nuclear power plant where two reactors are being decommissioned, the ...

Against a backdrop of heightened tensions between Iran and the United States with Israel over the former's nuclear facilities ...

Japan requires people changing their gender to have genitalia resembling those of the target gender. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Time has stood still on the sixth floor of the Dai-Ichi Life building across the moat from Tokyo's Imperial Palace. Behind heavy wooden doors lies an office, preserved since 1945, that houses the desk ...

The U.S. found out this year that China could use its chokehold on rare-earth minerals as a coercive tool. For Japan, it was ...

As President Donald Trump’s tariffs add to a sense of uncertainty in Japan, the Sanseito party and its leader Sohei Kamiya ...

The LDP’s historic electoral fall exposes a fractured Japan, where public disillusionment, economic woes and rising populism ...

A single 25-year-old needs a minimum of just under 300,000 yen (about $2,030) to live a modest but ordinary life in the ...