On a recent visit, what I saw was far beyond my expectations, as Japan revealed itself to me in vivid pockets of experience.

Chiba University is the country's only national university with a nursing department. Some 400 people, including students and ...

Princess Aiko on Sunday attended a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of Chiba University’s School ...

A recent Yomiuri Shimbun survey found that 69% of respondents were in favor of revising the Imperial House Law, which specifies the procedures for succession to the throne, to allow a female emperor.

Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means.

TOKYO - Masato Harada, a Japanese director known for films such as "Chronicle of My Mother" and "Climber's High" that ...

Lasting peace in Asia demands that Tokyo abandons its historical revisionism and refusal to acknowledge past crimes The ...

Driving around Tokyo blaring slogans on the 84th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, ultra-nationalist outfit Taikosha only has around 100 mostly male, middle-aged members. But the ...

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Driving around Tokyo blaring slogans on the 84th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, ultra-nationalist outfit ...

Japan traditionally had male emperors, but there have also been eight female monarchs. The last was Go-Sakuramachi, who ruled ...

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