In April, fans of Donald Keene who had visited the special exhibition "Donald Keene and Takuboku Ishikawa" and related sites in the Iwate Prefecture c･･･ ...

The prosecution of five people in the drug death of actor Matthew Perry ended Wednesday with the sentencing of the personal ...

Matthew Perry's personal assistant has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison for his role in the drug death ...

The following is a summary of major ship movements and exercises in the Western Pacific over the last week. Western Pacific ...

Thought to have been introduced by Anglo-Indian officers in the Royal Navy in the 1800s, the dish has since spiralled into a national obsession ...

Alexis de Tocqueville never wrote about Japan, but his warnings about democracy, centralization, and soft despotism found an ...

In a speech to a colloquium on John Hay’s Open Door Policy, former US diplomat Chas Freeman argues that America’s current ...

This mountain city is known as the training site for Aoyama Gakuin University, a powerhouse in the annual New Year’s Hakone ...

The Commodore Perry Estate and Austin Proper Hotel were both named to Travel + Leisure magazine’s 2026 list of the 500 best hotels in the world.

To the unknowing passerby, Uraga and Kurihama, near Yokosuka Naval Base, may be small and ordinary looking Japanese towns. But both are where American Commodore Perry and his “Black Ships” landed in ...

For about 200 years, Japan engaged cautiously in trade, limited to a few Asian countries and the Dutch, while remaining ...

The Commodore 64C Ultimate, scheduled for release later this year, revisits the iconic Commodore 64C with a focus on preserving its original experience while incorporating modern technology. By using ...