A set of hina dolls is on display at Higashiosaka city hall in Osaka Prefecture. The dolls, crafted by a local company, are ...

Viz Media translator Kumar Sivasubramanian discusses the challenges of approximating Dandadan's pop culture references to ...

The Sapporo Snow Festival started on February 4 in Sapporo, Hokkaido. It is a famous Japanese festival celebrating snow and ...

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Soy sauce containers that are included in boxes of shumai dumplings made by Kiyoken, based in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, ...

is widely used in Japan to describe how some Japanese products, while successful at home, fail to translate abroad. Overseas consumers could see it as quirky or too cutesy, except for Japanophiles ...

On Nov. 11, a Yasen-class nuclear-powered submarine passed through the Soya Strait, which separates Japan’s northernmost main ...

Microsoft makes its Translator Pro English-language speech translation ‘generally available’ to approved businesses in 35 ...

At Zao Onsen Ski Resort in the city of Yamagata, ice trees conveying a feeling of winter are their best. Ice trees are formed when snow and ice repeat･･･ ...

Grambush’s story is like many of our own: She’d loved the North since she was a little girl, when her parents would load her and her sisters into the car, and they’d trailer the family boat up to ...

A U.S. airman was arrested Monday on suspicion of driving under the influence and rear-ending another vehicle on the Okinawa ...

The former interpreter for Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in federal ...