By Damian Flanagan A few years back I conducted an online interview with the veteran writer, translator and Japanologist John Nathan. And in the mids ...

As well as being cheap, bamboo appears to have remarkable qualities of seismic resistance. Now it's being used to try to ...

Dozens of earthquakes rocked the region, but a tsunami didn't seem imminent. Then the massive waves began crashing in.

The Empress Emerita broke her right thigh bone in October last year, but has recovered to almost the same condition as before ...

Tomiichi Murayama, who has died aged 101, was a hitherto unsung politician who unexpectedly became prime minister of Japan ...

Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who died Friday aged 101, was best known for his landmark apology for Japan's World War Two aggression 50 years after its surrender, an ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun Imam Yusuke Fujitani explains about the onion-shaped dome while standing on the minaret of Kobe Muslim ...

Eighty years ago, in the autumn of 1945, World War II surrender ceremonies took place across the Japanese Empire.

Japan’s former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who was known for his 1995 “Murayama statement” apologizing to Asian victims of his country’s aggression, has died.

Tomiichi Murayama, Japan's former prime minister known for his landmark apology over World War II, died on Friday at age 101. His 1995 statement set a benchmark for Japan's wartime remorse and ...

A moderately strong, 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Japan on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.