I was bewildered that The Tale of Genji had such a hold on me at this particular moment: It is a wild, confounding work that ...

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FUKUOKA—Volunteer divers started a full-scale search off Fukuoka Prefecture on Aug. 19 for remains and belongings from a ...

Sen Soshitsu XV, who has died aged 102, was known in Japan as the 15th Urasenke Grand Tea Master and descendant of Sen Rikyu, the Japanese sage who perfected chado – “the way of tea”, commonly known ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, center, and Empress Masako wave to well-wishers from the balcony of the Imperial Palace as Crown Princess Kiko, far left, Crown Prince Akishino, and Naruhito and Masako ...

Russia has held a ceremony to commemorate a victory by former Soviet Union troops over the now-defunct Imperial Japanese ...

Within days following the attack of Pearl Harbor by Japan Dec. 7, 1941, the FBI would apprehend over 100 Japanese men in Imperial Valley in a series of large-scale sweeps that separated families ...

Evangelical scholar Yoichi Yamaguchi shares how Shinto influenced the development of emperor worship and the ways Christians responded.