Nara is a city located in the Kansai region of Japan, near Kyoto and Osaka. It was the first permanent capital of Japan, ...

With more than 28 million visitors expected to descend on Osaka for the Osaka-Kansai World Expo 2025, Waldorf Astoria's opening could not be more perfectly timed.

The five covers of T’s annual Culture issue — which this year is devoted entirely to Japan and its outsize cultural influence ...

The influencer and husband Lucky Blue Smith also parents to daughter Rumble Honey, 4, and son Slim Easy, 3 Nara Aziza/Instagram Nara Smith shared sweet reflections on motherhood as she celebrated ...

Bill Maher reminded California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has was the “poster boy” for many of the Democratic Party policies he now identifies as “toxic.” We’re in the same damn echo chamber ...

OSAKA – The Osaka High Court on March 25 became the fifth high court in Japan to rule that the country’s lack of legal recognition for same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, but it upheld a ...

By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor The poster for Locarno 2025 depicts the festival’s trademark leopard on a tree branch “amid an acid trance of yellow and purple abstraction,” according ...

Osaka Is Buzzing for the 2025 Expo ... What makes it stand out is how easily you can get to places like Kyoto and Nara, or even hop on the Shinkansen to reach Tokyo, Kyushu, and more. If you’re ...

The Golden Route is the quintessential travel itinerary for first-time visitors to Japan. It traditionally includes Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and (sometimes) Hiroshima, offering a well-rounded introduction ...

Enhancing women's participation in society will be an important theme of the 2025 Osaka Expo, which starts in mid-April. The Women's Pavilion, to be jointly operated by French luxury brand Cartier ...

MIAMI -- When she left the Hologic WTA Tour in the fall of 2022, Naomi Osaka was ranked in the mid-40s and playing something less than the sublime tennis that won her four Grand Slam singles titles.