The distribution of plants has been shaped by geological and climatic changes over time through repeated migration, ...

Police in Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, have arrested a 70-year-old woman on suspicion of strangling her 76-year-old husband to death. According to the police, a call came into 110 at around 1:40 p.m. on ...

By Martin Fackler Reporting from Tokyo Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman born before the ... she died peacefully of complications related to old age. “I offer my deepest condolences,” said ...

The market draws people from all over the world, and many of the biggest vintage clothing buyers come from Japan. Connor Gressit is a Rose Bowl vendor who says that’s been true a long time: “Since the ...

TAKASAKI, Gunma — A daruma doll is a traditional Japanese craft known as a good luck charm called “Engi daruma.” The eyes of a new daruma are blank. You fill in the right side (the left eye of the ...

A 50-yer-old man died after he was buried by snow while backcountry ... Morita was pulled from the snow about 2 1/2 hours later and taken to hospital where he was confirmed dead. The Japan ...

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But when she opened her mouth to speak, it was with a cheerful, slightly nasal twang: the voice of a 24-year-old stay-at-home mother. To generations of Japanese, she is Sazae-san, the titular char ...