HAEBARU TOWN, Okinawa — A 6-year-old Japanese girl stood with her back to Defense Department students gathered Thursday to learn about the Japanese abacus, or soroban, at the Tsukazan Community ...

High up in the Japanese Alps, the only sounds I hear are birdsong and water gurgling through the channel beside the path. But when travellers first walked this ancient route, it would have been a ...

NAGOYA -- What were until now thought to be the oldest human fossils found in Japan, known as the "Ushikawa man," are actually the bones of a bear, researchers recently announced. The fossilized ...

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A Japanese man who transformed his home into an ancient palace filled with vintage artefacts – such as silver ingots and a throne-like dining chair – to cope with his autism has sparked ...

it’s tempting to turn to the self-help section of the bookshop — perhaps the increasing number of tomes claiming to impart ancient pearls of Japanese wisdom. They tend to follow a similar ...

A new study suggests that the DNA some modern Japanese ... trait in the past can negatively influence disease risk in a modern context, they concluded. "It is a really important discovery that ...

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At the center of the circle is Eiko Araki, a master of the Sanuki Kagari Temari, a Japanese traditional craft passed down for more than 1,000 years on the southwestern island of Shikoku.

Kyoto has been using its name to boost tourism in various regions of Japan for over 30 years. In 1985—with a goal to work together in preserving local history and culture as well as promote tourism — ...

Overseas tourist traffic to Japan is rebounding to pre-pandemic levels. Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto, long a popular destination for tourists, is closing off some private-property alleys in ...