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 ...

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

"St. Patrick wasn't even Irish" is absolutely a fact I will be bringing up every St. Patrick's Day from now on.

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.

As Harvard and a top biographer square off, proponents of a middle path see a tangled life in which the superstar of science ...

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

Japan's 89-year-old former empress Michiko, the mother of Emperor Naruhito, will undergo surgery after falling at home and breaking her right leg, the imperial household said on Monday.

South Africa winger Kurt Lee Arendse became the latest Springbok to join a Japan Rugby League One club when Sagamihara Dynaboars announced his signing on Tuesday. The 28-year-old former ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...