Two friends started AkiyaMart as a Zillow-like website to search for homes in Japan. They now own 6 homes in Japan, but the ...

T he best things come in pairs. From Tom and Jerry to peaches and cream, it’s often the combination of two contrasting ...

THE HISTORIC HOME of San Jose’s first Asian American mayor now belongs to a local church with deep roots in Japantown’s community. Wesley United Methodist ...

Dozens of mysterious structures across the Northern Hemisphere – some nearly 5,000 years old – align precisely to frame the rising and setting Sun on midwinter's shortest day.

Hungry ogres, giant goats and trees that offer gifts... see how ancient lore, Norse gods and rites both old and new shape ...

In the country’s Yoshino forests, cedar and cypress have been tended for generations, offering an unmatched setting to ...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were wild cats.

In 2013 Yukihiro Akama found some small blocks of oak behind the house in northern England where his family was living at the time. Trained as an architect in his native Japan, he began carving ...

Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a bustling city that is best discovered at a leisurely pace. Credit...via Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum; via Nihon Mingeikan; via Tokyo ...

KYOTO, Japan, Nov 11 (Reuters) - An immersive art space in the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto is offering a novel experience to visitors from around the world, aiming to dissolve the boundary ...

Set to open in Spring 2026, Capella Kyoto in the historic Miyagawa-cho district has opened reservations for two unique stay packages: Gion Whisper and Capella Sojourn. These offerings are designed to ...

The White House on Tuesday posted to X a photo of two black caps embroidered with "JAPAN IS BACK," signed by President Donald Trump and Japan's newly elected prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, a bit of ...