Home to some of the most impressive and storied shrines in Japan, many parts of Nikko remain off the beaten path, offering a ...

MITO--Yasuko Yasuhara, once a top party hostess in this Ibaraki prefectural capital, made an inevitable career shift as she ...

There’s not much shogun-era history left in Japan but Matsumoto, north-west of Tokyo, is a great place to relive samurai rule ...

Shintō shrines are a familiar presence in every corner of Japan, yet few here are aware of the powerful national organization that oversees them—let alone its historical and ideological ties to ...

Toshusai Sharaku is a Japanese Asian Antiquities artist who was born in the 18th Century. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Art Institute of Chicago have featured Toshusai Sharaku's work ...

Ogata Korin was a Japanese Asian Antiquities artist who was born in 1658. Their work is currently being shown at Eskenazi Museum of Art in Bloomington. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Nezu ...

An expedition performed by the Tokugawa Shogunate officially discovered the island and mapped it but it was uninhabited until May 1830. During the 19th century, the Western ship visited Chichi Jima ...

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The United States announced it had reached a trade deal with Vietnam on Wednesday, which will see Washington impose a 20 per ...

Urakami Cathedral This cathedral barely survived the atomic bomb's explosion as it was less than a kilometer away from the hypocenter. You can see vestiges of the blast and the remaining relics from ...

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