Yasuyuki Aono kept track of bloom dates for Yamazakura cherry trees in Kyoto. nanamori via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 The death of a beloved scientist left empty an idiosyncratic but ...

Each spring in Kyoto arrives with a quiet anticipation. Buds swell, branches soften, and for a brief, luminous moment, cherry blossoms transform the landscape into something almost unreal. For Prof ...

Prof Yasuyuki Aono’s meticulous work charted shifting bloom dates as a marker of climate change Even in his final months, he counted the days until the cherry blossoms. Prof Yasuyuki Aono of Osaka ...

From legends like Jaguar Yokota and Akira Hokuto to contemporary superstars Asuka and Iyo Sky, Japan has produced some of the best female pro wrestlers in the world. In part thanks to growing ...

Takeshi Shina and Junya Ogawa, former members of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, on Thursday filed their candidacies for Friday’s vote to elect new leadership of the Centrist Reform ...

Dragon Quest VII is a legendary game. Released initially in 2000 on PlayStation, it won over legions of RPG fans, particularly in Japan, for its substantial job system, dark narrative, and lengthy ...

Meet Andy Sachs. A million girls would kill to have her job. She's not one of them.

Onigawara, the director of the International Secret Police Agency, looked forward to making Takeshi a top-notch criminal investigator. Takeshi was given training, which turned him into an all-around ...

The long delay has only added to the film’s enigmatic aura. Set in an alternate-reality Hong Kong of 1994, so much has transpired in the interim that the brooding noir now feels less like a follow-up ...

Suntory Holdings Chairman and CEO Takeshi Niinami has resigned from his post after being questioned by police over the purchase of supplements that are suspected to be illegal in Japan, a fact that he ...

Takeshi Niinami has stepped down from his post following a police investigation, underscoring Japan’s zero-tolerance drug policies. By River Akira Davis Reporting from Tokyo The chairman of the ...