A series of farewell rites and events has begun for Japan's Princess Mikasa, who passed away on Friday. She was the widow of ...

Princess Yuriko, the oldest member of the Japanese Imperial Family, passed away on Friday, November 15 at age 101. The cause ...

NAGASAKI--An imposing late 19th century building here that once served as an orphanage is undergoing extensive refurbishment ahead of its opening as a hotel in December.

This experience, priced at 2,200 yen (approx 1,232), has attracted a variety of customers, including couples who even take ...

Kajiya Honten, a 120-year-old funeral home in Futtsu, Chiba Prefecture, recently unveiled an innovative concept, allowing ...

Asia Society presents a fresh look at the art of Japan’s Meiji era (1868-1912), a period of unprecedented cultural and technological transition, in the landmark exhibition Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...

Ernest Satow's stories of Japanese mountains in the Meiji Era), contains lessons for alpinists that are just as valuable today as they were nearly 150 years ago. He discourages climbers from ...

Coffin cafe’ innovation sees young people flock to funeral home to lie down in open caskets, take photographs, come to terms with death.