Yoshimune, the shogun who saved the city of Edo. Through disaster and economic strife, alongside its people, his wisdom ...

KYOTO--A feudal-era folkloric monster called Amabie has taken Japan by storm for its purported mystical power to fend off plagues. An increasing number of people ... during the Edo Period (1603-1867).

Maria Grazia Chiuri's pre-fall 2025 collection honored Christian Dior's fascination with florals and birds as well as his ...

Kyoto is a very particular place. While Japan’s other cities can be overwhelmingly frenetic, occasionally impersonal and almost hyper real at times, the former ...

Everyone goes to Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. Why not try spots like the bustling port of Yokohama or the serene monasteries of ...

Hiking on the Nakasendo trail in the Gifu and Nagano Prefectures of central Japan, I encounter more Buddhist jizo statues ...

The ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto has introduced ... tsunami in northeast Japan. “Kyoto City has learned from the 2011 earthquake, which caused more than 5 million people in the Tokyo ...