After traveling around Japan for nearly a year, I've loved visiting Miyajima, Sapporo, and Hakone over tourist hot spots like ...

An Australian woman has given birth to identical quadruplet girls after a pregnancy doctors described as incredibly rare.

Shoko Kawata, mayor of Yawata, is the country’s first sitting mayor to take maternity leave, a decision that has drawn ...

A popular princess drives support for having a female Japanese Emperor. But the country's first female prime minister opposes ...

Curious about Japanese beauty standards? Learn what Japan really values in beauty, how it compares to the West, and what's ...

Nature has long shaped Japanese culture, and nowhere is this more evident than in its baby names. Inspired by the changing ...

And while its capital, Tokyo, is a must-visit for first-timers, Japan has so much more to offer travelers of all types, from cherry blossoms to white sand beaches to soothing onsen (hot spring spas).

When Charles Miller stepped off a ship carrying two footballs at the Port of Santos in 1894, not even in his wildest dreams could the Scotsman have imagined the revolution he would spark in a vast ...

The rapidly declining marriage and fertility rates across developed East Asian societies strain pension and health care systems, threaten economic growth, and reshape entire societies. To tackle this ...

The spring bloom of cherry blossoms is a stunning sight. Across Japan, Korea, and places like Washington, D.C., the trees burst with dense, pink flowers for just one or two weeks, bringing millions of ...

April 2 (Reuters) - Nils Nielsen has stepped down as head coach of the Japanese women's team, the country's football association (JFA) said on Thursday, less than two ‌weeks after the Dane guided them ...

KOYASU MIWA traverses Japan, from Sapporo in the north to Miyazaki in the south, with one goal: to make the countryside less hostile to women. Ms Koyasu runs a consultancy that advises local ...