In the wee hours of March 10, 1945, around 300 U.S. B-29 bombers dropped 330,000 incendiary bombs mainly on present-day ...

Japan’s Risako Kawai won her second Olympic wrestling gold, defeating Belarus’ Iryna Kurachkina 5-0 in the women’s 57-kilogram freestyle final on Thursday, a day after her sister Yukako won ...

Kawai, who began surfing at just seven in her native Tokushima, western Japan, admits she still has to battle her phobias in the water after fearing she might become shark bait on more than one ...

The tipping point for virtually all of Japan’s big cities other than Tokyo would be 2035, wrote Masashi Kawai in Future Atlas: What Happens in Japan with a Declining Population. Additionally ...

In Japan, ‘cute’ is a big deal. Their own word for it, kawaii (“ka-why-ee”), is more of an ethos than an adjective. Shops and billboards are filled with big-eyed fluffy figures.