The Japan Spirits & Liqueurs Makers Association announced on Thursday the introduction of a new logo to help consumers identify whiskies that meet its industry standards. The association hopes this ...

The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification is the first religious group to face a revocation order under Japan’s ...

TOKYO, March 11 (Reuters) - Japan's economy expanded in the October-December quarter at a slower pace than initially reported, weighed by weaker consumption but still likely supporting the case ...

From its origins in a garage to becoming one of the most recognisable symbols in the world, explore the story behind the iconic Apple logo design. Apple is a company that has changed the technology ...

Rio Takeda played nothing like a rookie atop the leaderboard going into the final round of the Blue Bay LPGA Sunday in the People’s Republic of China. Takeda—the 21-year-old Japanese golfer ...

TOKYO, March 6 — The Japanese government plans to invite to Japan this summer stateless people born to Japanese nationals and left in the Philippines after World War II, to coincide with the ...

More than 900,000 Australians visited Japan last year, taking advantage of a strong exchange rate and direct flights. After eating at specialist ramen shops, Tokyo coffee houses (known as kissaten ...

After earning absolute power over Japan’s feuding factions, Tokugawa Ieyasu became the island nation’s first shogun, and in the early 17th century he consolidated his political control in Edo ...

Private equity giant KKR & Co (KKR) and U.S.retailer Walmart(WMT) are selling their ownership of the Japanese supermarket chain Seiyu for $2.5 billion. Discover the Best Stocks and Maximize Your ...

We explore the history of Japanese botany and show how one scholar played a key role in introducing Western science into Japan. I have a great interest in East Asian collections and was recently lucky ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...

More than 2,000 firefighters, backed by military helicopters, are battling Japan’s biggest forest fire in three decades, as the blaze burns thousands of hectares of land every day. Officials on ...