A new study suggests a far more intricate genetic tapestry is involved in the ultimate ancestry of people in Japan.

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its ...

Hashima Island in the Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, was once a thriving arm of the country's industrial revolution - but ...