A filmmaker’s obsession with mortality led him on a years-long global odyssey. Here’s what he learned.

Two weeks after she asserted that a military threat to Taiwan would spur military intervention by Japan, commentators continue to ask themselves what on earth Sanae Takaichi, the country’s new leader, ...

Post World War II, architects like Kenzo Tange pioneered a new blend of tradition with modernism, sparking the influential Metabolist movement of the 1960s that imagined cities as organic, adaptable ...

TOKYO — The pet of choice in Japan, as much as cuddly kitties and playful puppies, is the humble bug. The bug has been a key part of Japanese culture from the Heian era classic “The Tale of Genji” to ...

TOKYO (AP) — The pet of choice in Japan, as much as cuddly kitties and playful puppies, is the humble bug. The bug has been a key part of Japanese culture from the Heian era classic “The Tale of Genji ...

Transience has come to inform so much of Japan’s culture — even its sense of self. T commissioned the Tokyo-based fine-art photographer Moe Suzuki to travel from her home to Kyoto, the city of Ise and ...

Shinzo Abe, then the prime minister of Japan, succeeded in making friends with Mr. Trump through golf, entertainment and appealing to his vanity. By Motoko Rich Reporting from Tokyo During the first ...