From awe-inspiring mountains to architectural marvels, these stunning destinations are captivating beyond belief.

For the families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean agents decades ago, this week is perhaps the best shot they’ve ...

A lot of thought goes into picking baby names in Japan. Not only do parents have to pick how the name will sound, but also how it’ll be written, since the Japanese language’s system of kanji ...

A type of Japanese dogsbane releases a scent identical to wounded ants’ distress signal, drawing in scavenging flies that unwittingly pollinate it.

In a greenhouse in Tokyo, researcher Ko Mochizuki noticed something unusual. Flies were swarming around the delicate flowers ...

Oudai Kojima manages to do a lot with comparatively little. The director’s debut feature, “Joint” (2021), was a self-financed ...

We met five remarkable people who’ve lived for more than a century and have yet to retire. For them, a working life is a richer one.

Discover the rare and mysterious ghost flowers of Japan—plants that thrive without photosynthesis, studied by botanist Kenji ...

Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu's childhood fascination with ghost flowers led to a career uncovering their secrets. These ...

In a statement, Takaichi spent five minutes at the Japanese Cemetery and 10 minutes at the National Monument. She laid a ...

Saburo Kita's arrangements of paper flowers are a bittersweet reminder of the life he had hoped for before he was forcibly sterilized under Japan's now-defunct eugenics law. Kita was labeled a ...