The akagome rice ritual helps preserve a resilient, ancient grain in Tsushima and the ceremony has been recognized as an Intangible Folk Cultural Heritage.
The year's most important meeting for science and technology is the Japan-US-South Korea Camp David summit. Here we look at S&T issues that should be featured.
Visitors to the Taiji Whale Museum had an opportunity to get up close to the whales and learn about their unique dental characteristics.
Trendy pop culture is leading the way but among Japan's festivals, the old and traditional can be just as refreshing and inspiring.
Colonel Galbraith's posthumously published narrative offers a rare and revealing insight into life in the senior Allied officer POW camps during World War II.
"People often say 'reconstruction' … Ishinomaki will never return to how it was before the disaster, but it can move forward." — Yusuke Takei
Samples collected from asteroid Ryugu by Hayabusa2 contain RNA base uracil and remnants of liquid water — shedding light on the origins of life.