Along the way, we learn Flint's origin story, why he became a pirate, and get a grand-scale look at the state of piracy during its most famous ... a legendary samurai named Musashi in the ...

Now that you’ve read about Oda Nobunaga, learn about the Onna-Bugeisha, Japan’s fierce female samurai. Next, discover the story Miyamoto Musashi, the Edo-era samurai famous for fighting with a ...

Dozens of major Japanese companies have pulled their commercials ... cover up a sex scandal involving one of the country’s most famous TV hosts TOKYO -- Dozens of major Japanese companies ...

Dozens of major Japanese companies have pulled their commercials ... cover up a sex scandal involving one of the country’s most famous TV hosts TOKYO -- Dozens of major Japanese companies ...

Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he is much more than that at home in Japan. Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride ...

Out of all the places in Japan to see cherry blossoms, the town of Yoshino, in Nara Prefecture, just might be the very best. That’s because there are more than 30,000 sakura trees on the slopes of ...

Dr. Takamine, who was born into a samurai family in Japan in 1854 and moved to the United States at the urging of his American wife, was far from the first to use koji mold. Various types of koji ...

Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million.

International tourism to Japan has exploded in recent years, and while the official figure for 2024 is yet to be released it is now certain to be a new record in excess of the 31.9 million who ...