Oni, the monstrous demons of Japan. Dishonest and deceptive they stole women and brought misfortune to the villages of Japan. So, Emperor Ichijō sent his greatest and most pure warrior to slay ...

Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo.

In some cases, steep, deep decline. Maybe most graphically (and demographically) there's Japan: a country that, since hitting a high of 128 million citizens in 2008, has lost population for 15 ...

By Pico Iyer Illustrations by Ilya Milstein A Japanese sentence is often as mongrel as a Japanese street. While walking through a shopping arcade in Osaka — here a tatami tearoom, there a French ...

China has executed a man for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese boy last September, the Japanese embassy in China has told the BBC. Zhong Changchun was sentenced to death in January for ...

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Japan plans to move up the schedule for introducing an electronic travel authorization system to the year ending March 2029 from the initial plan of 2030 amid a rapidly growing number of foreign ...

TOKYO -- Japan added 10 new members to its task force for tariff negotiations with the U.S. on Monday, drawing people from the transport, agricultural and other ministries to weigh potential ...

Japan is once again hosting the World Expo — this time on the man-made island of Yumeshima in Osaka Bay. With 158 participating countries and over 28 million projected visitors, the six-month event ...

In Japan, interest rates are set by the Bank of Japan's Policy Board in its Monetary Policy Meetings. The BoJ's official interest rate is the discount rate. Monetary Policy Meetings produce a ...

What are the best Minecraft skins? There are countless Minecraft skins available online now, as imaginative creators have spent years building an extensive library of avatar customizations for the ...