For almost 700 years, these disciplined warriors were respected and feared in Japan, and they carved out a path that made ...

Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

Here and below are some of the Japanese avant-garde designers, photographed for T over the course of a few months, who have ...

Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...

THE WORK OF A MASTER FILMMAKER FROM JAPAN. THAT CHOICE WAS INTENTIONAL. SHAKESPEARE’S PLAY, THE MACBETH THAT YOU’RE READING THAT WAS SET IN MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND AT CATHEDRAL HIGH, SEVENTH GRADERS ...

Tokyo, April 21 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese government advisory panel held its first meeting Monday to review the country's retrial system, following the acquittal of Iwao Hakamata after decades on ...

CHERRY tree fans are bound to fall in love with this Medieval English town home to the ... castle's display gives those of Mount Fuji and Tokyo, Japan, a run for their money.

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamata, won compensation from Japan this week after almost five decades in jail -- and he owes his freedom to a judge with steely determination.

Tokyo, April 18 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese government advisory panel will start discussions Monday to review the country's retrial system for criminal cases in which guilty verdicts have become ...

Japan has taken a major step toward revising the country's retrial system, which has been criticized as making the process of overturning a wrongful conviction excessively lengthy. But the prospects ...