Although only recently experiencing a boost in popularity in the West, matcha has a long and complex history and culture originating in Asia.

Looking ahead to the New Year, Wu expressed his hope that China-Japan people-to-people and cultural exchanges would achieve ...

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Korea and Japan held a joint lighting ceremony Saturday in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the normalization of their diplomatic relations this year, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said.

The city of Kyoto is known as Japan's cultural and spiritual capital. It's for good reason: Kyoto has hundreds of Buddhist ...

matcha tea and premium sake tastings for adult visitors. Event organiser and Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies Takako Amano said: “Japan Day has really captured the public’s interest because ...

Drums thundered and priests chanted as sumo's newest grand champion strode onto the public stage Friday in a ceremony to mark his promotion to ... for playing in a charity football game with former ...

Freeze-dried green tea drink is seen in this image provided by Kagoshima-Osumi Food Technology Development Center. KAGOSHIMA -- The Kagoshima Prefectural Government has patented a freeze-drying ...

The number of people who killed themselves in Japan fell to 20,268 in 2024, marking the second consecutive year of decline and the second-lowest level after 20,169 in 2019, the health ministry ...

Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations in Campbell, California. C Lawrence Greenwood is Chair of the Japan Society of Northern California in San Francisco and a former ...

He and his wife became U.S. citizens Monday, taking their oaths in a ceremony at the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, along with 28 others, as their families watched, waved small flags and recorded ...

World leaders and a dwindling group of survivors joined in a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp by the Red Army. transcript Survivors of Auschwitz ...