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

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 ...

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

During the 80th anniversary year of the end of World War II, former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama died at age 101, 30 ...

The Empress Emerita broke her right thigh bone in October last year, but has recovered to almost the same condition as before the fracture. She carefully supports the daily life of the Emperor ...

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 ...

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, died Friday. He was 101.

In fact, traveling to Tokyo on business may be the easiest way to tap into a vein of the local and everyday. The world’s largest metropolis is one giant cityscape of commuters on the move. Instead of ...