Surgery on Japan's 89-year-old former empress Michiko on Tuesday was successful, officials said, after she fell at home and broke her leg.

The term "samurai" comes from the Japanese word saburau, meaning "to serve," and was first used in A.D. 702 to describe mid-to-low-ranking court administrators and, later, armed imperial guards.

The attack was strikingly similar to another, which also happened in China. In June a Japanese woman and her child were ...

Tech icon Steve Jobs was fascinated by Japanese culture, and was particularly passionate about shin-hanga woodblock prints. Interviews with former colleagues and friends reveal that his lifelong ...

Japan's 89-year-old former empress Michiko, the mother of Emperor Naruhito, would have a check-up after falling at home, the imperial household said on Monday, with media reports saying she would be ...

Thatched roofs were once a common sight in the Japanese countryside, but they started to disappear in the 1950s, when people ...

and an old set of earbuds. Not bad for some spare parts and a little extra G-Code. The print head hits a remote shutter button during a brief parking action after each layer. Inserting custom G ...

Move Over, Matcha: Long beloved in Japan, strawberry milk is becoming a fixture on cafe menus in Hawaii and now the mainland, ...

HONG KONG -- The stabbing death of a 10-year-old Japanese boy in Shenzhen at the hands of a Chinese stranger is straining an already tense bilateral relationship, although the assailant's motive ...

BEIJING (AP) — Officials in Tokyo said Thursday that a 10-year-old Japanese student attending a Japanese school in southern China who was attacked the day before has died, asking Beijing to ...

The fatal stabbing of a 10-year-old boy on his way to a Japanese school in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on Sept. 18 sent shock waves not only through the Japanese expatriate community in China but ...