On Sept 2, 1957, Japan’s 60-year-old foreign minister, Aiichiro Fujiyama, stood on the stage of Tokyo’s Sankei Hall. The Corsica Daily Sun reported at the time that in front of him — and among ...

TOKYO AMC’s “Mad Men” has won a devoted following, and armloads of Emmys, with its brand of Kennedy-era cool. Now Japanese broadcasters and pic producers are building their own nostalgia boom for the ...

In the last few years, Japan's tourism growth has been unrivaled. Most recently, the country was named the safest country by the Institute for Economics and Peace, Japan distinguished itself as one of ...

A support group for Japanese fishermen exposed to radiation from US nuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean in the decades immediately after World War II has had to launch a crowdfunding campaign to raise ...

In the 1950s, a Japanese cat known as "717" helped solve the mystery of a mass poisoning in Minamata, Japan. Now, almost 70 years later, a piece of brain tissue from the same cat has led a Canadian ...