The charismatic members of the four-piece group have had a busy year between attention-grabbing Coachella performances, a new album and a world tour.

On the north-eastern peninsula, Shiretoko National Park is one of the top unspoilt natural environments in Japan. The name ...

The Japan National Tourism Organisation reports that, this year, the country’s tourism experienced remarkable expansion.

After a strange conspiracy turns Goku and his friends into childlike forms, they travel ... Japan in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, with veteran Saichi Sugimoto and his newfound friend ...

The documentary screening at Tokyo Film Festival takes a deeply human look at the lives of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan's Hokkaido.

The documentary screening at Tokyo Film Festival takes a deeply human look at the lives of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan's Hokkaido. By Gavin J Blair As Shogun was bathing in the glory of ...

Among its recent library titles are “Wife of a Spy,” a suspense drama that won Kurosawa a best director prize at Venice in ...

including two names from Japan: Chura and Kamui. "Chura" means beautiful in the Okinawan language, while "Kamui" means god in the language of the indigenous Ainu people. The Paris-based ...

but it was not always part of the larger nation of Japan. Prior to 1869, Hokkaido was ruled by the native Ainu people, who also resided among the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin Island. During this ...