Working with Japanese American woodworker Toshi Kawabata of Barrban Woodworks, Elizabeth Altounian realized her dream of living in a Kyoto-style dwelling, on a small scale.

The Seoul-based artist discusses her inspirations, surreal illustrations and how her joy of drawing fueled her tattoo journey.

Babymetal are one of the biggest success stories of the last 15 years - and one of the most unexpected. Metal Hammer caught up with the Japanese sensations in 2015, at the start of their meteoric rise ...

An NHK survey found that more than 60 percent of the survivors of the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake feel that memories of the disaster and lessons learned are fading. Friday marks 30 years ...

No need to struggle to keep your room warm this winter. We’ll give you pro tips on maximizing your air conditioner’s ...

Hosaka resolved to do something about this and with a modest budget and big amount of resolve he forged the NHK Writers’ Development Room (WDR), inviting pitches from wannabe Japanese TV drama ...

More Japanese firms have pulled their commercials from Fuji Television after the broadcaster's head held a news conference on the scandal involving ex-SMAP member Nakai Masahiro. Fuji TV President ...

it will be the first private Japanese firm to achieve a lunar landing. The company's CEO Hakamada Takeshi says it is working on the mission with confidence, having learned lessons from its first ...

Japanese pitching star Sasaki Roki says he has agreed to sign with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He had been aiming to move to a Major League Baseball club through the posting system. The 23-year-old ...

The publication of textbooks for NHK’s radio lessons started in 1925, the same year radio broadcasting commenced. Taking the opportunity of the centennial of Japanese broadcasting, the NHK ...

Major Japanese companies including Japan Airlines, MUFG Bank and NTT Docomo were under cyberattack from late December. The businesses say this led to glitches in their systems or disrupted access ...