Former internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election on Saturday ...

The sturdy Umaya Bridge across the Sumida River in the Japanese capital has been a symbol of recovery from the 1923 Great ...

A study conducted by a Tokyo-based private think tank found that junior high school students who read newspapers for three ...

Retro Japan in Photos: Triple-arch bridge in Tokyo a symbol of recovery from 1923 quake Japan junior high students' trust in ...

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Colleen M. Farrelly (1985- ). From "Frogpond," Issue 48:2, Spring/Summer 2025. Haiku Society of America, USA. This haiku presents an eminently concrete scene that allows us to fully enter and ...

Many women find it difficult to talk about menstruation-related hardships, even when the symptoms are severe and affect their ...

An opinion poll by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs found that, while social media is a source of abbreviations and new ...

A U.S. Osprey aircraft made an emergency landing as a precautionary measure at an Air Self-Defense Force base in central ...

An 82-year-old man of Japanese descent from the Philippines has had his request for Japanese nationality rejected by the ...

Japan has entered flu season nationwide, about a month earlier than last year and the second earliest in 20 years, the health ...

The anti-war resolve of a late artist who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, continues to shine through his works su ...