Thousands filled Peace Memorial Park on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa.

Archaeologists found the gold-plated artifact on a sacred island of Japan almost 70 years ago but only recently took a closer ...

The samurai, Japan’s celebrated lineage of warriors, emerged in the Heian period (794-1185), when the rise of their status enabled them to mingle with the refined nobility living in the then ...

It passes the Kyoto Museum of Art and the Heian Shrine, while providing access ... property with access to all the area’s hits. See japan.travel Everyone stays in the Centro Storico.

These tankers, which handle a quarter of all LNG shipments, are only the tip of Japan’s increasingly dominant gas empire. With the enthusiastic backing of the government, corporate Japan now ...

That they played a critical role in rebranding Japan's image over the 20th century, from that of a military empire, into a pop culture super power? If you're not quite following, consider the ...

However, there is a character in Japanese mythology ... brought down by the tyrannical empire and its army. The story parallels that in the series; during the Heian Period, the entire army of ...

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire keeps shining in the theatres and has now opened in Japan. After almost a month of its release in other regions, the film did pretty well on its opening weekend.

and this time around sparked West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) to cover some of its trains on the Tokaido and Sanyo lines almost entirely in designs inspired by Heian era (794-1185) art and culture.

On a rainy afternoon in 1891, five years before he would be crowned tsar of Russia, Nicholas Romanov was riding a rickshaw through the narrow streets of Otsu, Japan, when one of the policemen ...