It was a strange, and slightly wonderful experience, especially following the tight clusters of crowds I’d encountered during previous visits to some of the country’s most pop ...

A curious trend circulating online has left many people puzzled. Videos show residents in Japan placing or dropping small ...

In once-abandoned communities, life is cautiously returning as policymakers confront the staggering price of future recoveries.

Home to one of the largest Japanese-heritage populations in the country, this city is the place to go for the traditional ...

The mad venture – which my mother nicknamed ‘your father’s ego’ – would swallow my childhood. Years later I went on a quest to understand what really happened to his glittering folly ...

Devon Turnbull, artist and founder of the audio brand OJAS, has taken this basic idea, given it an audiophile twist and, in collaboration with Japanese furniture maker Karimoku, designed an intimate ...

Even buildings as remarkable as Mr. Kikutake’s Miyakonojo Civic Center, with its segmented roof arched like a baby stroller, fell prey. Similarly, Japan’s shrinking population has stimulated the ...

For nuclear boosters, it shows that atomic energy still has a future in Japan. For critics, it marks the unwelcome revival of ...

On the flight back to Japan from the United States, Mieko Hattori, then 44, realized she was the only one awake in the dim ...

A photographed journey in the land of the rising sun reveals how japan preserves centuries-old tradition, while at the same ...

The Venus tiny house uses Scandinavian design to pack two sleeping areas and off-grid capability into a compact ...

Yet it was shortlisted last October in partnership with NuScale—a publicly traded nuclear company with a market value exceeding $4 billion—to build new energy infrastructure using a slice of the $550 ...