Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sixty years ago, early in the morning of October 1, 1964, a sleek blue and white train slid effortlessly across the urban sprawl ...

Fueling an international dispute over wartime history, Japan’s government approved a new public school textbook Tuesday that China and South Korea immediately denounced as “poison” for whitewashing ...

With the end of 2015, a year of commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the curtain closes on another chapter in the recurring historical debates in Northeast Asia. Despite ...

The history of the Kimono Dress and the clothing revolution surrounding 19th century Japan. In the 19th century, Japan opened its doors to the world. The Kimono Dress, emblematic of a broader clothing ...

In Japan’s premodern era, people began and ended their lives surrounded by screens. Women gave birth between screens that were covered in cranes and tortoises, animals thought to bring good fortune, ...

“I was promised cherry blossoms if I came to Tokyo,” joked Professor Peter Feaver on a chilly March Friday to a room full of alumni and two dozen traveling Duke students who had just spent a week in ...

Scientists analyzing the genomes of thousands of people across Japan discovered evidence for a previously overlooked third ...