Works by Polish artists from the 19th and 20th centuries are on display for the first time at the National Museum of Modern ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

The governments of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, which were hit hardest by the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, face the challenge of passing on the lessons of the disaster ...

Senior Tokyo Metro officials gathered at a memorial site at Meguro in Tokyo on Saturday morning to offer prayers for the five people killed on March 8, 2000, when a train on the Hibiya subway line ...

This year's gender gap index by prefecture in Japan has shown large regional differences in the ratio of female participation in disaster preparedness activities. The fourth annual prefectural ...

Spectacular aerial footage taken on March 1 captured a mesmerizing natural phenomenon over Japan's Naruto Strait, a channel between Naruto in Tokushima and Awaji Island in Hyōgo. The area has ...

A prefectural assembly panel in Hyogo, western Japan, has found some truth in allegations of power harassment conduct by Governor Saito Motohiko. The panel has been investigating a whistleblower ...

Kaii Higashiyama was a Japanese artist known for his nihonga style paintings that often depicted nature. Born in 1908 in Yokohama, Japan, he later lived in Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan. He was educated at ...

Kenichi Okutani, right, head of the Hyogo Prefectural Assembly's special investigation committee, hands over the panel's final report to assembly speaker Tomoaki Hamada in Kobe's Chuo Ward on ...