From the powdery slopes of Niseko to the ethereal cherry blossoms surrounding Mount Fuji, it feels like the world and its mother is heading to Japan. After a record-breaking year for tourist arrivals ...

Neither China nor Japan wants war. The danger is that each side increasingly believes the other is preparing for one.

Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo. But the ...

The United States’ alliance with Japan is the centerpiece of U.S. security in Asia, but new demographic challenges from within Japan raise concerns about the future of the region. The U.S.-Japan ...

Japan’s first-ever female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is an ultraconservative with a traditional view of gender roles and a penchant for heavy metal music. Japan’s parliament elected Takaichi on ...

Workers in Japan have started releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. The plant was destroyed in a 2011 earthquake and massive ...