Surrounded by the vast Pacific Ocean, Japan’s Ise-Shima region is a place where ancient traditions, spirituality and the great outdoors collide.

A group of older women from Fukushima, Japan, traveled to Jeju Island to offer an apology Tuesday to "haenyeo," Korea’s traditional female divers, for Tokyo’s decision to release into the ...

Seventy-five years ago, hundreds of interned Japanese pearl divers were deported from Australia at the end of World War Two. It largely ended a once-lucrative industry in Queensland’s Torres Strait.

By Amanda Holpuch Jessie Mahaffey, who was scrubbing the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it was hit by Japanese torpedoes at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and who was among the last living ...