Plans to demolish a historic baseball stadium where Babe Ruth played and an adjacent rugby venue are at the heart of a disputed park redevelopment in Tokyo that critics say trades history and greenery ...

Ruth and Lou Gehrig played at the stadium on a 1934 barnstorming tour. Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami was inspired to ...

The train station closest to my house has a split personality. Exit north and you’ve got an orderly bus lottery, tidy streets ...

The historical issues in East Asia have long been a blindspot for the United States. Time to start paying attention.

Father Arrupe’s intense desire for union with the heart of Christ gave him strength as he ministered to victims of the ...

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As tech companies invest heavily in big data centres to meet demand for cloud computing and AI, people in Tokyo’s greater ...

The Okura Tokyo embraces quiet elegance and enduring Japanese hospitality.

The Nihonbashi Bridge was considered the first reference node of the entire Japanese national road network at the time.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building was completed in 1990 and towers over Shinjuku. Its Main Building No. 1, standing 243 meters tall, was the tallest structure in Japan at the time. Each ...